The mediator role of digital literacy in the relationship between adolescents' social media attitudes and self-perceptions

The Mediating Role of Digital Literacy in the Relationship Between These Adolescents' Social Media Attitudes and Self-Perceptions, attitudes and self-concept perceptions. The type of research consists of a total of 287 adolescents, 188 of whom are girls (65.5%) and 99 of whom are boys (30.3%), in the 14-17 age group, who attend secondary education in the Central district of Bilecik province. "Personal Information Form", "Social Media Attitude Scale", "Digital Literacy Scale" and "Self-Perception Scale for Adolescents" were used as measurement tools. The data in the analysis phase was completed by transferring to SPSS Statistics 23. Independent t-test was used for differences between two groups, and one-way analysis of variance (One Way ANOVA) was used to determine whether there was a difference. between more than two groups. Pearson distribution analysis was used to examine the relationship between the scales, and path analysis was used for model testing. P<0.05 was accepted for significance. It is obtained that adolescents' social media attitude, digital literacy and self-perception level subscale scores differ according to demographic variables. According to the Path model, social media attitude behavior has a positive significant effect on digital literacy behavior (β: 0.475, p: 0.000), and digital literacy behavior has a positive significant effect on self-perception behavior (β: 0.412, p: 0.000). . In addition, it was determined that digital literacy view (β: 0.196, p: 0.005) played a mediating role in the effect of social media attitude view on self-perception view. When the results are evaluated, it is possible to talk about the positive effect of social media distribution on the self-perception of adolescents as well as the acquisition of digital literacy.