An Educational Approach for Decreasing Internet Addiction: Motivational Interviewing Psycho-Education Program

Article History: Purpose: The objective of the study was to examine the impact of The Motivational Interviewing PsychoEducation Program which was prepared based on the method of Motivational Interviewing by the researcher on the Internet addiction level of the Internet-addicted students who studied in university. Research Methods: Experimental design based on ''Pre-Test PostTest and Follow Up Model with Control Group'' was used in the study. The Motivational Interviewing Psycho-Education Program with the experimental group was carried out in 10 sessions in the form of 120-150-minute. No studies were conducted with the control group. The Personal Information Form and Internet Addiction Scale were applied to obtain the necessary data from the internet-addicted students who would form the study group in the present study. The Motivational interviewing psycho-education program was prepared by the researcher by scanning the literature and taking the opinions of experts. Received: 25 Oct. 2020 Received in revised form: 23 Feb. 2021 Accepted: 27 Feb. 2021 DOI: 10.14689/ejer.2021.94.2