Survey data show the correlation between school attachment dimensions and internet addiction among secondary school students in Kosovo

This is a dataset that identifies data regarding the correlation between dimensions of school attachment and Internet addiction. The data was gained from a research population of adolescents aged 15–19 years attending secondary schools in Kosovo. The whole sample consists of 525 students, 310 (59%) of them were female, and 215 (41%) were male, respectively 214 (40.8%) were students attending the tenth grade, 189 (36%) were in the eleventh grade and 122 (23.2%) were in the twelfth grade. Data was collected via a survey with paper-pencil questionnaires from 6 different secondary schools from 4 different cities in Kosovo. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used. Research analyses were conducted with SPSS, using descriptive statistics and Spearman's analysis, which aimed to examine the non-parametric relationship between dimensions of school attachment and internet addiction. The research instrument was verified to have all the necessary psychometric values considered suitable for research. Several descriptive statistical analyses were performed to further clarify the data and provide the necessary platform for further analysis.

statistical analyses were performed to further clarify the data and provide the necessary platform for further analysis.
© The data were collected through the paper-pencil questionnaires, which were delivered to secondary school students in Kosovo using purposive and stratifying sampling techniques.The questionnaires were applied to the participants in the classroom environment and took an average of 15-20 minutes.

Data source location
Region: Europe Country: Kosovo Data accessibility The data is with the present article and Mendeley Repository Repository name: School attachment and internet addiction Data identification number: 10.17632/syf3v93tfy.5 Direct URL to data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/syf3v93tfy/5

Value of the Data
• The data will be useful for researchers who want to compare the impact of school attachment and internet addiction among secondary school students, in other world countries or contribute to further meta-analysis.• We think that the data will provide a resource for researchers who want to examine the effects of school attachment and internet addiction.• Analyzed data provides insight for education stakeholders to become more aware of the importance of education.• Data can be used to examine whether there is a significant relationship between the groups of variables or constructs.

Data Description
The dataset presents the understanding of school attachment and internet addiction among secondary school students in Kosovo.These data were collected throughout the school year 2022-2023, after the period of the Covid-19 pandemic.The sample consists of 525 adolescents studying at different secondary schools in Kosovo, which is not a representative sample for the whole of Kosovo, but it is representative for the secondary schools of 4 cities at a 95% confidence level and a margin of error is about 4%.310 (59%) of the students are female, and 215 (41%) are male.214 (40.8%) of them are students attending the tenth grade, 189 (36%) in the eleventh grade and 122 (23.2%) attend the twelfth grade.This data can be accessed on Mendeley repository [1] .Table 1 shows the socio-demographic characteristics of the students who participated in the research.Categorized Survey: contains survey questions used to collect data; Extra Datasets: Table 2 shows the data collected from the responses to the "Internet addiction scale for adolescents".The scale was developed by Ta ¸s [2] and adapted into the Albanian language by Basha, et al. [3] .Furthermore, the internal consistency coefficient of Cronbach Alpha was found to be 0.828.The factor variances of the 9 scale items were calculated to be between 0.300 and 0.500, and the item factor loadings ranged from 0.549 to 0.708.[4] .The scale was developed in 5-point  Likert type and the answers were "never", "rarely", "sometimes", "often", "always".The scale has a single factor and consists of nine items, indicating that the high scores to be obtained from the scale are at the level of Internet addiction.Table 3 shows responses to the "School Attachment Scale", which was developed in Albanian by Aslan & Kosir (2021), which measures school attachment [5] .The reliability of the entiry scale is α = 0.737 from the combined five item sets reflecting the five dimensions of the school attachment.The scale consists of 24 questions, divided into 5 sub-dimensions: 1) Students' feelings about being in school (5 questions), 2) Students' interest in learning (6 questions), 3) Students' attitudes towards other students (5 questions), 4) Students' attitudes towards their teachers (6 questions), and 5) Students' perceptions of the school (2 questions).In the scale of school attachment, answers were given using a Likert-type scale starting with 1 (strongly disagree), 2 (strongly disagree), 3 (strongly agree), 4 (strongly agree) and 5 (strongly agree).

Experimental Design, Materials and Methods
The data collection and analysis to carry out this research were collected with questionnaires from students who attend public secondary schools.The special focus of the research was on the relationship between school attachment dimensions and internet addiction.In order to achieve the aims and ideal results of the study, students who participated were from different cities and schools around Kosovo, using purposive and stratifying sampling.Initially, four Kosovo cities, such as Peja, Lipjani, Klina and Shtime were selected purposefully, and based on the terms of population one of the selected cities was a large city (Peja), two were medium cities (Lipjan and Klina) and one was a small city (Shtime).The total number of students in these cities was around 8,0 0 0, distributed in 11 public schools (Peja -4 schools, Lipjan -3 schools, Klina -2 schools and Shtime -2 schools).Then, 6 schools form these cities were selected to participate in the research, based on the criterion of the largest number of students per school.On this occasion, 2 schools were selected from the city of Peja (a high school and a vocational school), 2 schools in Lipjan (a high school and a vocational school), 1 school in Kline (a high school) and 1 school in Shtime (a high school).The total number of students from the 6 schools which were selected for survey was more than 5100.

Table 4
Correlations between the groups of variables.Then, the classrooms from these 6 schools were selected based on stratified sampling by taking the same number of classrooms for each grade in each school.The selection of classrooms was done randomly, taking the classroom 1 and 5 for each grade.However, the response rate was not the same for each grade, about 80% for the tenth grade, 70% for the 11th grade and 49% for the 12th grade, totally the rate of responses were 66%.The students from the classes that have been selected to participate in the research have been informed in advance that the survey will be conducted on the specified day, informing them about procedures of the survey and that their participation is anonymous, confidential, voluntary and not mandatory, which means that at any stage they could leave the process.

Interest in Learning
Those surveys were collected in the school year 2022-2023.The questionnaires were administered to different age groups starting from the age of 15.On the day of administration of the questionnaires, the students were explained again about the importance of the study and asked to answer the items sincerely in the questionnaire.They were also told that the study is anonymous, and confidential, so they did not have to provide credentials such as their names or any other identifying information.In the end, data were collected from 525 participants in total.4 of the data were not subjected to the analysis because they were incomplete.Research analyzes were conducted with IBM SPSS Statistics and Spearman's analysis, which aimed to examine a non-parametric relationship between school attachment and internet addiction ( Table 4 ).Relationship screening models are studies that aim to determine the change between two or more variables [6] .

Ethics Statements
Ethical approval was obtained from the Code of ethics for scientific research of the AAB College in Prishtina, Kosovo with the protocol number of 271/23.Respondents' participation was completely consensual, anonymous, and voluntary.The collecting data was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
In addition to the ethical approval from the Code of ethics, consent was also obtained from the schools that participated in the study and Parent's Councils at the school level, who were informed in detail about the objectives of the study, and that the study will be completely voluntary, anonymous and confidential.With the consent of the schools, it was ensured by them also support of the school psychologist during the time of administration of the questionnaires.
Then, to include students' in decision making for participating in the study and to get their consent, schools have also informed them that the study will be carried out on the specified day, informing them about procedures of the study and about that their participation is anonymous, confidential, voluntary and not mandatory.
Students who were present in the classroom in the time of administration of the questionnaires, before the administration of questionnaires, were again explained about the procedures and that their participation is voluntary, anonymous, and confidential, and that they can leave the process before starting the administration of questionnaires or at any stage of the process.The students who stood at classrooms meant they consent the participation in survey.

Limitations
As it was mentioned above, the data were collected in the school year 2022-2023, after the period of the Covid-19 pandemic.This can be considered as a limitation because according to the data obtained, the pandemic had a negative effect on school attachment and internet addiction.Among the reasons for this, the remote working, distance education and online socialization during the quarantine period caused an increase in internet addiction as a communication and connection tool and weakening of connections with the school.During the pandemic, people relied heavily on the internet to access information, entertainment and essential services, and there may be an increase in internet addiction.It is important to note that the effects of the pandemic on school attachment and internet use are complex and may continue to evolve as societies adapt to new circumstances.
Another limitation of these data is that the selected sample is not representative for all secondary schools in Kosovo and this does not allow the generalization for all secondary schools in Kosovo.However, the sample is representative for the respective cities and schools, which were selected for the administration of the questionnaires.
Another one of the limitations of the data may be the fact that the participants were 59% female students and 41% male students, since from a demographic point of view students aged 15-18 years in schools in Kosovo have more male students than females.However, the schools that have been selected to be part of the study in most cases have been high schools (not vocational schools), where approximately 57% of students in high schools in Kosovo are female.
When this is added to the fact that the participation in the study was voluntary, with an overall response rate of about 66%, which resulted in this gender percentage of the participants and with a lower responses rate of 12th grade students.This can be considered as another limitation.
2023 The Author(s).Published by Elsevier Inc.This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )

Table 2
Students' responses to the items of internet addiction ( n = 9 items).

Table 3
Students' responses to the items of attachment of school ( n = 24 items).