Murat Iskender

Social self-efficacy, academic locus of control, and internet addiction

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship of internet addiction, social self-efficacy, and academic locus of control. Participants were 311 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Online Cognition Scale, the Academic Locus of Control Scale, and the Perceived Social Self-efficacy Scale. The hypothesis model was tested through structural equation modeling. According to results internal academic locus of control was predicted positively by social self-efficacy. Also internet addiction was explained negatively by social self-efficacy and internal academic locus of control and positively by external academic locus of control. Results were discussed in the light of literature.

Chart of uncompleted suicide behavior regarding individual, social and psychological factors

Abstract The purpose of the study was to construct a profile of uncompleted suicide attempts regarding individual, social and psychological factors. The study was carried out through a qualitative research method with 194 females and 44 males, totally 238 individuals who attempted to commit suicide. Data was obtained through a structured interview form by means of interviewing face-to-face with participants analyzed by frequencies and percentages. Suicide characteristics that have been frequently seen in individuals who attempt to suicide are mostly women, whose age is between 15-20, are first child, are single and high school graduates, whose economical level is moderate, live in country town and do not have any job, have inconsistent parental attitude and weak interfamilial relations, had no trauma experience and psychological support, have low level of social support perception, do not use any drug, had attempted to suicide before, who have self-blames before a suicide attempt, and who did not leave a message before the attempt.

The Effectiveness of the Psychoeducational Effective Parenting Program Application on Symptoms of Psychoactive Substance Use

Abstract The main purpose of the study is to test the effectiveness of the Psychoeducational Effective Parenting Program Application on reducing the symptoms of the use of psychoactive substances. The research was carried out by the use of a pretest-posttest control group design-oriented experimental method. The experiment and control groups consist of families of students who have high levels of symptoms on the use of psychoactive substances. The research data was collected through interviews. A “Semi-Structured Interview Questionnaire” was used for teacher, director and family interviews in order to determine the students who use psychoactive substances and learn about their history of substance use and for the determination of psychoactive substance use levels of students, a “Structured Interview Questionnaire” was used. The data was grouped in pretest-posttest and follow-up test. Analyses were conducted in order to test the effectiveness of the Psychoeducational Effective Parenting Program Application between the individuals’ levels of having symptoms of psychoactive substance use at different times. The results show that the Psychoeducational Effective Parenting Program Application is effective on symptoms of psychoactive substance use.