The relationship between social media addiction and sleep quality in badminton athletes

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social media addiction and sleep quality of badminton athletes. In addition, the effects of some demographic characteristics of the participants on social media and sleep quality were also examined. The research group consists of a total of 190 national badminton athletes, 90 women and 100 men. Personal Information Form, Social Media Addiction Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were used as data collection tools in the study. t-test, One-Way Anova, Tukey and Tamhane's T2 tests were used in the analysis of the research data. Correlation Analysis was applied within the scope of relational comparison. According to the findings obtained as a result of the research, while there was a significance between the gender, age and education level of the participants and their sleep quality, no significance was obtained in weekly training hours. There is no significance between the demographic characteristics of the participants and their social media addiction. There is a significant, positive and medium/weak correlation between the sleep quality of the participants and their social media addiction.