The investigation of human values perceived from the use of social media of secondary school students

This research has been carried out to investigate the relation between social media usage of secondary school students and their perceived human values. The population of the research consisted of 1952 students, of which 48% were female and 52% weremale, 7th and 8th grade students attending secondary schools in central Adıyaman in 2014-2015 academic year. These school were Türkiye Petrolleri secondary school, Fevzi Çakmak secondary school, 50. Yıl secondary school, Cengiz Topel secondary school, Emniyet secondary school, Menderes secondary school, Kömür secondary school, Bir Aralık secondary school and Osmangazi secondary, which were selected randomly. Data for the research were collected through "Human Values Scale" developed by Dilmaç (2007), and "Social Media Usage Motivation and Satisfaction Scale" developed by Ök (2013). Data were analyzed with SPSS using independent samples t-test and one-way-ANOVA analyzes. Bonferroni, Kruskall-Wallis and LSD post-hoc test were conducted to find out the significance between the groups following application of one-way-ANOVA tests. Significance level was accepted as ,05.The research showed that the longer social media usage led to the lower total points from "human values scale" in certain subscales and the higher points in others; and the gender was determined to be significant in favor of male students in social media usage and satisfaction. In the light of result some suggestions were made for researchers.