A survey of 488 college students was conducted in Turkey to investigate the relationship between social network usage, shame and Internet addiction. It was hypothesized that a relationship between shame and social network usage was mediated by Internet addiction. First of all, according to simple regression analysis, it was found that shame significantly and positively predicted social network ...

conclusions: although our study showed the prevalence of internet addiction was not more than other populations and universities, since the prevalence of internet addiction is rapidly increasing worldwide, this population might also be at risk of addiction. thus, focusing on related factors can help us in designing more effective interventions and treatments for this susceptible group. results:...

Differences between light and heavy users of the Internet are investigated, using theoretical expectations derived from recent research on Internet diffusion and Uses and Gratifications theory. Measures of Internet usage process gratifications and Internet socialization gratifications were utilized to test for differences between light and heavy Internet users, and it was expected that light us...

Understanding the students’ temporal and periodic Internet usage behaviors are essential for administrators, instructors and course coordinators for evaluating Internet usage behaviors related to those students’ undertaken courses or programs. In this paper, we propose a new Web usage mining approach for automatic extraction and visualization of periodic and temporal based Internet usage behavi...

What impact does Internet usage have on university education? How effective is this impact? What are important antecedents for Internet usage in university education? Answers to these questions can help justify heavy investment from many universities in Internet infrastructures, as well as increase benefits of Internet usage in university education. Because Internet usage in university educatio...