Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study
Yıl: 2022 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 75 - 73 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 İndeks Tarihi: 12-07-2022
Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study
Öz: Social media is a virtual medium that eliminates the concepts of time and space, and its use is known
to have increased during the pandemic. It is estimated that the effects of social media addiction among
young people have increased during the pandemic. This study aims to determine the internet addiction
levels of young people, specific to the social media, with the restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic;
and to propose solutions for the fight against the technology addiction which is accepted as an
addiction type.
The study employed a quantitative model. Two hundred fifty-eight young people in the 18–25 age range
studying at different faculties of Sakarya University participated in the study. The Social Media Addiction
Scale for Adolescents was administered to the participants. This scale is a measurement tool for determining
university students’ social media addiction levels, which has nine items, consists of a single factor, and
is implemented in a five-point Likert form. For homogeneity testing, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov result was
found at sig .00, and Cronbach’s alpha value was found at .876 in the scale reliability analysis. The frequency,
t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and chi-square tests were performed in the analysis of the data. This
study is descriptive in terms of the function of the information.
According to the findings, the average scale score was calculated as 2.0693, indicating that young people did
not develop an addiction to social media. This result reveals two facts. First, youngsters are aware of both
the positive aspects and the addictive nature of social media, and can control their usage behavior. Secondly,
they no longer develop signs of addiction based on the variables sought for social media addiction.
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APA | ALSANCAK F, ÖZPOLAT A, AKYÜZ I, Değirmenci G (2022). Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. , 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
Chicago | ALSANCAK Fatmanur,ÖZPOLAT ALİ OSMAN,AKYÜZ ISMAIL,Değirmenci Gamze Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. (2022): 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
MLA | ALSANCAK Fatmanur,ÖZPOLAT ALİ OSMAN,AKYÜZ ISMAIL,Değirmenci Gamze Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. , 2022, ss.75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
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Vancouver | ALSANCAK F,ÖZPOLAT A,AKYÜZ I,Değirmenci G Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. . 2022; 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
IEEE | ALSANCAK F,ÖZPOLAT A,AKYÜZ I,Değirmenci G "Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study." , ss.75 - 73, 2022. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
ISNAD | ALSANCAK, Fatmanur vd. "Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study". (2022), 75-73. https://doi.org/10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
APA | ALSANCAK F, ÖZPOLAT A, AKYÜZ I, Değirmenci G (2022). Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions, 9(1), 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
Chicago | ALSANCAK Fatmanur,ÖZPOLAT ALİ OSMAN,AKYÜZ ISMAIL,Değirmenci Gamze Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions 9, no.1 (2022): 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
MLA | ALSANCAK Fatmanur,ÖZPOLAT ALİ OSMAN,AKYÜZ ISMAIL,Değirmenci Gamze Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions, vol.9, no.1, 2022, ss.75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
AMA | ALSANCAK F,ÖZPOLAT A,AKYÜZ I,Değirmenci G Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions. 2022; 9(1): 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
Vancouver | ALSANCAK F,ÖZPOLAT A,AKYÜZ I,Değirmenci G Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study. Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions. 2022; 9(1): 75 - 73. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
IEEE | ALSANCAK F,ÖZPOLAT A,AKYÜZ I,Değirmenci G "Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study." Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions, 9, ss.75 - 73, 2022. 10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |
ISNAD | ALSANCAK, Fatmanur vd. "Social Media Addiction among Turkish University Students During the Pandemic: A Descriptive Study". Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions 9/1 (2022), 75-73. https://doi.org/10.5152/ADDICTA.2022.21077 |