Research Article
The Relationship of Affective Temperament and Emotional-Behavioral Difficulties to Internet Addiction in Turkish Teenagers
Table 1
Sociodemographic properties of adolescents in respect to Internet addiction status (chi-square test).
| | | Nonaddicted () | Addicted () | value |
| | Gender | | | | | Girls () | 86 (92.4%) | 7 (7.6%) | 0.66 | | Boys () | 197 (93.8%) | 13 (6.2%) | | Age | | | | | 14 years () | 44 (95.7%) | 2 (4.3%) | 0.38 | | 15 years () | 112 (95.7%) | 5 (4.3%) | | 16 years () | 81 (91%) | 8 (9%) | | 17 years () | 46 (90.2%) | 5 (9.8%) | | Grade | | | | | 9 () | 164 (94.8%) | 9 (5.2%) | 0.48 | | 10 () | 82 (92.1%) | 7 (7.9%) | | 11 () | 37 (90.2%) | 4 (9.8%) | | Residence | | | | | Town () | 51 (96.2%) | 2 (3.8%) | 0.28 | | City center () | 232 (92.8%) | 18 (7.2%) | | Household income | | | | | <1000 TL () | 179 (95.2%) | 9 (4.8%) | 0.08 | | ≥1000 TL () | 104 (90.4%) | 11 (9.6%) | | Computer in the home | | | | | Yes () | 146 (90.1%) | 16 (9.9%) | 0.01 | | No () | 137 (97.2%) | 4 (2.8%) | | Internet usage time | | | | | <1 year () | 81 (95.3%) | 4 (4.7%) | 0.06 | | 1-2 years () | 92 (96.8%) | 3 (3.2%) | | >2 years () | 110 (89.4%) | 13 (10.6%) | | Place of internet use | | | | | Internet cafe () | 147 (96.7%) | 5 (3.3%) | 0.13 | | House () | 107 (89.9%) | 12 (10.1%) | | School () | 12 (92.3%) | 1 (7.7%) | | Others () | 17 (89.5%) | 2 (10.5%) | | Control of internet use | | | | | Himself/herself () | 180 (93.7%) | 12 (6.3%) | 0.91 | | Mother () | 47 (94%) | 3 (6%) | | Father () | 40 (91.9%) | 4 (9.1%) | | Others () | 16 (94.1%) | 1 (5.9%) |
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TL: Turkish lira.
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