Önem Arayışı ve Bazı Demografik Değişkenlerin Ergenlerin Sosyal Medya Bağımlılığı ile İlişkisi

Öz

Ergenlik dönemi bedensel büyümenin hızlı, kişilik gelişiminin ise karmaşık olduğu bir evredir. Ergenler, yavaş yavaş aile etkisinden uzaklaşırken; arkadaş etkisine daha açık hale gelirler. Diğer bir ifade ile toplumsal ilişkiler ergenin hayatında belirleyici rol oynar. Günümüzün toplumsal ilişkilerinin azımsanamayacak kısmı sosyal medyada gerçekleşmektedir. Ergenlerin sosyal medyayı kullanma nedeni önem arayışı için olabilir mi? Sorusu ile ortaya çıkan bu araştırmada ergenlerin bazı demografik özellikleri açısından önem arayışı düzeylerini saptamak ve ergenlerde önem arayışı ile sosyal medya bağımlılığı arasındaki yordayıcı ilişkileri belirlemek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma iki kısımda gerçekleştirilmiştir. Birinci kısımda 257 ergen bireye ulaşılarak Önem Arayışı Ölçeği ergen örnekleme uyarlanmıştır. İkinci kısımda ise 607 ergen katılımcıdan elde edilen veriler ile değişkenler arası ilişkiler incelenmiştir. Verilerin analizinde t Testi, Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi (ANOVA), Kruskal Wallis H Testi ve Basit Doğrusal Regresyon Analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda ergenlerin önem arayışında cinsiyet, algılanan akademik başarı, aile gelir durumu, ebeveynlerin evlilik durumu ve sosyal medyada geçirilen süre açısından anlamlı farklılıklar bulunmuştur. Ayrıca, ergenlerin sosyal medya bağımlılığında önem arayışının anlamlı bir yordayıcı olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• önem arayışı
• sosyal medya bağımlılığı
• ergenler

Proje Numarası

Yok

Associations Between Significance Quest, Demographic Variables, and Adolescents’ Social Media Addiction

Öz

Adolescence is a period of rapid physical growth and complex personality development. As adolescents gradually move away from family influence, they become more open to peer influence. In other words, social relationships play a significant role in adolescents' lives. Today, a considerable part of social relations takes place on social media. This study, motivated by the question of whether adolescents use social media to fulfill a significance quest, aimed to determine the levels of significance quest in adolescents based on certain demographic characteristics and to examine the predictive relationships between significance quest and social media addiction among adolescents. The research was conducted in two phases. First, 257 adolescents were surveyed, and the Significance Quest Scale was adapted for the adolescent sample. The second part analyzed the relationships between variables using data from 607 adolescent participants. t Test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Kruskal Wallis H Test and Simple Linear Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data. The study revealed significant differences in the search for significance among adolescents in terms of gender, perceived academic achievement, family income status, parental marital status, and time spent on social media. Additionally, significance quest was found to be an important predictor of adolescents' social media addiction.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Significance Quest
• Social Media Addiction
• Adolescents

Destekleyen Kurum

Yok

Proje Numarası

Yok

Etik Beyan

Ethics committee permission for the study was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of a state-affiliated university in Turkey on 29/08/2022 with the protocol number 2022/05-19.

Teşekkür

Yok

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