THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION AND INTERNET USAGE: A SURVEY AMONG TURKISH UNIVERSİTY STUDENTS

Internet usage that shows huge increase in recent years in turkey and all world revives new communication forms and their psychological effects. about the relation between internet usage and psychological problems of modern society such as depression, loneliness, and communication apprehension discussions are made frequently in both academic circles and the mass media. this research intended to state stage of turkish university students’ communication apprehension as a indicator of psychological wellbeing, and types of internet usage (communication, entertainment, and informative). add to this, the study purpose to show the relationship between communication apprehension, and internet usage types (communication, entertainment, and informative) among turkish university students. a survey was conducted on two thousand eight hundred and six (2806) students who attend twenty six (26) universities that located on whole turkey. different sampling techniques were used such as cluster, purposeful and random sampling for representing all turkey university students. data was collected via a questionnaire which included different subscales such as communication apprehension, internet usage styles and individual differences. results showed that 64.3 % of participants live communication apprehension. also participants’ daily average internet usage time is 118 minutes. students most frequently use to internet purpose of communication and entertainment while they use less purpose of information. in additionally, internet usage for communication and general internet usage were positively and significantly correlated with communication apprehension.