مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Examining the variables effecting the controls attention of high school students Using CHAID Analysis

Abstract :

The purpose of this research, the factors affecting the controls attention of high school students to determine what happened. The population of research consists of the students studying at high schools bound to Batman Provincial Directorate of National Education in 2015-2016 educational year and the sample of this study consists of 700 female and 1124 male students (1824 in total) who were chosen by using convenience sampling that is one of methods of the non random sampling. In order to determine the controls attention of high school student, Attention Control Scale which was developed by Fajkowska and Derryberry (2010) and was conducted the Turkish adaptation study by Akın et al., (2013) were used. Personal Information Form, which was developed by the researcher to get students’ socio-demographic information were collected. SPSS 21.0 packaged software was used for statistical analysis of the data. As a result of the analyses, which were CHAID analysis, the independent variables having the highest effect on high school students’ controls attention were “the frequency of smartphone use” and then respectively gender, age and live with family. Based on the results obtained in this study, high school students are thought to be beneficial to reduce the frequency of use of the smartphone.