Investigation of the Relationship between the Internet and Mobile Usage with Students' Psychological Trauma

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate internet addiction, mobile phone usage, and SMS to determine psychological trauma. Method: In this study, 179 students (82 boys and 97 girls) were randomly selected and were asked to answer Internet Addiction, Mobile, SMS and SCL-25 Questionnaires (Short Form SCL-90). To investigate the relationship between these variables, in addition to frequency statistics, Kendall’s tau-b and Pearson correlation coefficients were used. Findings: There was a significant relationship (r = 0.394) between the two variables of internet addiction and psychological trauma at the 0.001 level. Also, a significant relationship was not found between the mobile phone and psychological trauma. Results: There is a positive relationship between internet addiction and psychological trauma, and with increasing internet addiction, psychological trauma also increases.