Philosophy and religious sciences relationship between social media addiction and religiousness in adolescents

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between social media addiction and religiosity among adolescents. İn this context, the study was conducted under two main sections. In the first section,the topics were individually examined and evalauted,while in the second section, the collected data were analyzed. The study employed the relational survery model, one of the quantiative research methods. The population of the research consits of middle school,high school and university students aged 13-18 who were actively continuing their education across Turkey during the 2023/2024 academic year. The sample of the study was seleceted using the random sampling method,and contsits of a total of 421 participants with 5.5% (n=242) male and 42.5 (n=179) female. The Social Media Addiction Students Information From Scale and the Religiosity Scale were used in the study. The staistical analysis software package. To determine differences in mean scores of variables, and One-Way ANOVA was used for variables with three or more groups. Additionaly, Pearson correlation analysis was employed to determine the direction of the relationship between the variables. The findings of the study revaled that social media addiction does not have a predictive effect on religiosity