The relationship between social exclusion (ostracism) and Internet addiction of adolescent girls

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and social exclusion in female adolescents. The relational screening method was used in the study. The sample group of the study consisted of 244 female adolescents aged 12-18 living in Cinar district of Diyarbakir. To determine the exclusion of adolescents in social relations, the Social Exclusion Scale for adolescents has been used as a data collection tool. Besides, Young Internet addiction Short Form developed by Young (1998) which is the short form created by Pawlikowski, Altstotter-Gleich & Brand (2013) and adapted to Turkish by Kutlu, Savci, Demir and Aysan (2016) has been used to test adolescents' internet addiction. Independent groups t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Dunn-Bonferroni test, and Spearman correlation analysis were used for data analysis. According to the results of the study, it was found that there was no statistically significant relationship between exclusion score averages and an average of Internet addiction scores (p> 0.05).

Social Exclusion, Self-Forgiveness, Mindfulness, and Internet Addiction in College Students: a Moderated Mediation Approach

“…First, the results showed that social exclusion positively predicted Internet addiction, as also captured by a limited number of past research (Lim 2019 ; Poon 2018 ). However, in the Turkish sample, while Tas and Öztosun ( 2018 ) came up with a supportive finding, another early research did not report a significant relationship between social exclusion and Internet addiction (Bagir et al 2020 ). The current study is thought to shed light on this controversy both in national and broader contexts.…”

“…Similarly, Tas and Öztosun ( 2018 ) concluded the positive predictor role of social exclusion on Internet addiction in a Turkish sample. On the other hand, in another study again with a Turkish sample, no significant association between these two variables was reported (Bagir et al 2020 ). To this end, the present study aims to shed light on the gap and controversy regarding the association between social exclusion and Internet addiction.…”

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Students' Cyber-bullying of Secondary Schools Teachers as A Form of Social Exclusion in Saudi Arabia since the Outbreak of COVID-19

“…People are excluded by the act of some agent. Areekkuzhiyil (2017)& Bagir et al(2020) identified the several causes of this issue, including lack of education, poverty, unemployment, and social pathologies such as cyber-bullying and domestic abuse (Areekkuzhiyil 2017;Bagir et al 2020).According to Ackah &Udah (2021), the placing of persons on the outskirts of society is the result of entirely new forces. The possession of a communication device, particularly a mobile phoneespecially a smartphoneor a computer with Internet access does not always guarantee social and medial participation.…”

“…It may serve as a reason or justification for social marginalization. As an illustration of cyber-violence phenomena, which may take the form of cyber-bullying, the media is an ideal instrument for both inclusion and exclusion (Areekkuzhiyil 2017; Bagir et al 2020).…”