TY - JFULL AU - Birol G眉lnar and Hacer Aker PY - 2013/6/ TI - The Relationship between Depression Interpersonal Communication and Media Using Among International Students T2 - International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences SP - 1198 EP - 1205 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13854 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 77, 2013 N2 - Student-s movements have been going increasing in last decades. International students can have different psychological and sociological problems in their adaptation process. Depression is one of the most important problems in this procedure. This research purposed to reveal level of foreign students- depression, kinds of interpersonal communication networks (host/ethnic interpersonal communication) and media usage (host/ethnic media usage). Additionally study aimed to display the relationship between depression and communication (host/ethnic interpersonal communication and host/ethnic media usage) among foreign university students. A field research was performed among 283 foreign university students who have been attending 8 different universities in Turkey. A purposeful sampling technique was used in this research cause of data collect facilities. Results indicated that 58.3% of foreign students- depression stage was 鈥渋ntermediate" while 33.2% of foreign students- depression level was 鈥渓ow". Add to this, host interpersonal communication behaviors and Turkish web sites usages were negatively and significantly correlated with depression. ER -