Research Article

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression

Volume: 21 Number: 3 July 31, 2022
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Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression

Abstract

Social media has emerged as a widely used tool in the communication age. This new virtual world, where individuals freely share their views and express themselves, is also used for many different purposes including personal, corporate, and public usages. Because of using social media, social relations established in the past and face-to-face relations until today have been replaced by newly established virtual relations. This new digital world also allows individuals to easily exhibit rude and aggressive behaviors that they do not demonstrate in daily life. The correlation between social media addiction and aggression can be widely seen worldwide and in our country. Depression, being anti-social, social media addiction, which we can call mental erosion and which usually occurs with social media addiction. The data of the study were collected by a questionnaire form from 296 individuals residing in Çorum. While the scale created in Şahin and Yağcı (2017) study was used as the social media addiction scale, the scale created in the Buss and Perry (1992) study was used to measure the aggression attitude. As a result of the study, while the social media addiction level of the participants varies according to their education level and online shopping status, however it does not change according to gender and working status. While the level of aggression varied according to gender, it did not differ according to employment status, education level, and online shopping status. In addition, there is a linear moderate positive relationship between social media addiction and aggression score.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Communication and Media Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

July 31, 2022

Submission Date

April 27, 2022

Acceptance Date

June 22, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 21 Number: 3

APA
Güler, H., Öztay, O. H., & Özkoçak, V. (2022). Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 21(3), 1350-1366. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1109602
AMA
1.Güler H, Öztay OH, Özkoçak V. Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression. GAUN-JSS. 2022;21(3):1350-1366. doi:10.21547/jss.1109602
Chicago
Güler, Hilal, Oğuz Han Öztay, and Vahdet Özkoçak. 2022. “Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 (3): 1350-66. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1109602.
EndNote
Güler H, Öztay OH, Özkoçak V (July 1, 2022) Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 3 1350–1366.
IEEE
[1]H. Güler, O. H. Öztay, and V. Özkoçak, “Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression”, GAUN-JSS, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1350–1366, July 2022, doi: 10.21547/jss.1109602.
ISNAD
Güler, Hilal - Öztay, Oğuz Han - Özkoçak, Vahdet. “Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21/3 (July 1, 2022): 1350-1366. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1109602.
JAMA
1.Güler H, Öztay OH, Özkoçak V. Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression. GAUN-JSS. 2022;21:1350–1366.
MLA
Güler, Hilal, et al. “Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 21, no. 3, July 2022, pp. 1350-66, doi:10.21547/jss.1109602.
Vancouver
1.Hilal Güler, Oğuz Han Öztay, Vahdet Özkoçak. Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Aggression. GAUN-JSS. 2022 Jul. 1;21(3):1350-66. doi:10.21547/jss.1109602

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