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2019; ASOS Eğitim Bilişim Danışmanlık; Volume: Volume 14 Issue 6; Issue: Volume 14 Issue 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.29228/turkishstudies.37018

1308-2140

Besra TAŞ- Yakup İME,

Music Education and Analysis

Nowadays, internet addiction is increasing day by day.Internet addiction can negatively affect the mental health of individuals.Internet addiction is not only a problem for adolescents but also it manifests itself as a central problem in adults.Many adults spend time on the internet to relieve their stress or spend their free time.Uncontrolled use of the relevant situation over time results in internet addiction.In the literature review it is seen that there is a significant relationship between internet addiction and depression.Excessive internet use may cause to depression.Although there are several studies examining the relationships between depression and internet addiction, there is no research that directly examines the levels of depression and internet addiction in divorced and married individuals.This study aims at revealing the relation on "Depression and Internet Addiction of Divorced and Married Individuals".The research has been conducted with a total of 353 participants (52.4% female, 47.6% male), 189 married and 164 divorced ones in Avcılar, Beylikdüzü and Esenyurt region of Istanbul province.Percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, independent groups t-tests, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey multiple comparison test were used in the analysis of the data.When the internet addiction scores of divorced and married individuals were examined, it was revealed that the mean scores of divorced individuals were statistically higher than married individuals compared to the average scores of internet addiction.Thus, considering this result, it has been concluded that divorced individuals have higher levels of internet addiction and depression than the married ones.