Predictive Roles of Psychological Resilience and Coping Skills on Social Media Addiction

Abstract

Social media addiction is fundamentally evaluated as a behavioral addiction. The studies on this issue stress the relation of long-term social media usage that may transform into addiction with chronical stress, depression, low psychological well-being and decreased life satisfaction. This study aims to examine the relationship between psychological resilience and coping skills of young adults and their levels of social media addiction. Participants of the study consists of total 436 young adults, 296 (68%) of which are female and 140 (32%) of which are male. “Social Media Addiction Scale”, “The Brief Resilience Scale” and “COPE Inventory- Brief Form” are applied to the participants. The results indicated that mean scores of social media addiction scales show low levels of social media addiction by the participants. According to multiple regression analysis results, psychological resilience, acceptance, substance use, focusing on and venting of emotions, and turning to religion have significant effect on predicting social media addiction. Psychological resilience is a predictor of social media addiction in negative direction. On the other hand, there is a relationship between emotion-oriented and unfunctional coping strategies and social media addiction.

Keywords

• : Social media addiction
• psychological resilience
• coping skills

Psikolojik Sağlamlık ve Başa Çıkma Becerilerinin Sosyal Medya Bağımlılığını Yordama Düzeyi

Öz

Sosyal medya bağımlılığı temelde davranışsal bir bağımlılık olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu konuda yapılan çalışmalar, bağımlılığa dönüşebilen uzun süreli sosyal medya kullanımının kronik stres, depresyon, düşük psikolojik iyi oluş ve yaşam memnuniyetinde azalma ile ilişkisini vurgulamaktadır. Bu araştırmanın amacı, genç yetişkinlerin sosyal medya bağımlılık düzeylerinin belirlenmesi ve psikolojik sağlamlık ve başa çıkma stillerinin sosyal medya bağımlılığını ne derece yordadığının incelenmesidir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu 296’sı (%68) kadın ve 140’ı (%32) erkek olmak üzere toplam 436 genç yetişkinden oluşmaktadır. Katılımcılara “Sosyal Medya Bağımlılığı Ölçeği (SMBÖ)”, “Kısa Psikolojik Sağlamlık Ölçeği (KPSÖ)” ve “Başa Çıkma Stilleri Ölçeği Kısa Formu (BÇSÖ-KF)” uygulanmıştır. Sosyal medya bağımlılığı ölçeğinin ortalama puanlarına göre katılımcıların sosyal medyaya düşük düzeyde bağımlı oldukları saptanmıştır. Çoklu regresyon analizi sonuçlarına göre, sosyal medya bağımlılığını yordamada sırasıyla psikolojik sağlamlık, kabullenme, madde kullanımı, duygulara odaklanma ve ortaya koyma, dine yönelmenin anlamlı düzeyde yordayıcı etkisinin olduğu saptanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sosyal medya bağımlılığı
• psikolojik sağlamlık
• başa çıkma becerileri
• : Social media addiction
• psychological resilience
• coping skills

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