African Educational Research Journal - Vol. 8(1) - Full Length Research Paper - Effect of Internet Addiction on Leisure Facilitators

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Study examines whether the association between internet addiction and leisure facilitators among Siirt University School of Physical Education and Sports students varies across different variables. The sample includes 192 participants (84 female, 108 male). Data were collected using the Leisure Facilitators Scale and the Internet Addiction Scale. Descriptive statistics summarized results, and structural equation modeling assessed relationships. Findings show goodness-of-fit values are highly acceptable, while leisure facilitators do not significantly affect internet addiction (p > 0.05).

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African Educational Research Journal Vol. 8(1), pp. 70-77, March 2020 DOI: 10. 30918/AERJ.81.20.024 ISSN: 2354-2160 Full Length Research Paper Effect of internet addiction on leisure facilitators in individuals thinking that their health worsens through the internet Servet Reyhan Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Siirt University, Turkey. Accepted 23 March, 2020 | ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to investigate whether the relationship between internet addiction and leisure facilitators of Siirt University School of Physical Education and Sports varies significantly in terms of different variables. The study group consists of a total of 192 participants, 84 (43 .8%) and male 108 (56 .2%), who study at the School of Physical Education and Sports of Siirt University and answer yes to the question of whether it disrupts your internet health. As the data collection tool in the study, “Leisure Facilitators Scale” developed by Kim et al. (2011) and whose validity and reliability in Turkish was developed by Gürbüz et al. (2015) and the “Internet Addiction Scale” developed by Balta and Horzum (2008) were used. Number, percentage, average and standard deviation were used as descriptive statistical methods in the evaluation of the data. The research model was tested with structural equation analysis. Relationships between leisure facilitators and internet addiction were tested by the structural model analysis. Structural Equation Modeling is an analysis method that allows the variables to be analyzed simultaneously and together with latent variables (Wan, 2002) . Schematic model and regression coefficients are given below. As a result of the research, the goodness of fit values of the structural model between leisure facilitators and internet addiction are highly acceptable. Leisure facilitators do not affect internet addiction (p > 0.05) .
Keywords: Health, leisure, internet addiction, physical education. | | --- | | E-mail: [serreyhannn@gmail.com](serreyhannn@gmail.com). | INTRODUCTION Sport is an important phenomenon for human beings in terms of acting in harmony with nature, maintaining their existence and improving themselves in the biological, psychological, and social sense. While people have been doing sports to meet or fight their basic needs in the past, it is seen that today sports are also done for recreational purposes by changing shape. Recreation is defined in the Turkish Language Association dictionary as “Activities that people voluntarily participate in in their spare time for entertainment and sports purposes” (TDK, nd) . With the development of the industry, unplanned urbanization, which increased rapidly with the increase of migration from rural areas to cities, destroyed the natural areas where people's free time activities can be carried out and increased the intensive work tempo, leading to unhealthy individuals in biological, psychological and social terms. In addition, increasing inactivity and stressful urban life with technological developments negatively affect aperson's physical, psychological and social aspects (Beşikçi, 2016) . One of the technological developments that negatively affect individuals is the internet addiction caused by the misuse of the internet. As its name signifies, the term addiction evokes an unfavourable meaning and thus any type of addiction may be considered as something that may potentially harm the addicted individual. As Neverkovich et al. (2018) mention,“Among the negative social and psychological consequences, the impact of the Internet has had is the so-called Internet addiction phenomenon, which has been the subject of scientific debate for the past 20 years, depending on the development of information technology and its availability”. Internet addiction can also be considered as a type of disorder that may have longlasting consequences such as torticollis, a disorder when the sufferer has a painfully twisted and tilted neck, a

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What is the purpose of this study?

To investigate whether the relationship between internet addiction and leisure facilitators varies significantly among different variables for Siirt University students.

What scales and data analysis methods were used?

The study used the Leisure Facilitators Scale and the Internet Addiction Scale, analyzed with descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling.

What relationship was found between leisure facilitators and internet addiction?

Goodness-of-fit values were highly acceptable for the structural model, but leisure facilitators did not significantly affect internet addiction (p > 0.05).

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