Evaluation of the relationship between social media addiction and aggression

This research was conducted to evaluate the relationship between social media addiction and aggression. The internet is considered to be the most fundamental invention or the most important event of our age, which enables the written and visual media to appeal to a limited framework today, and that the concept of speed has become the main element of competition with technological developments, and perhaps above all, the focal point of life free from the concept of time and space. Social media emerges as a tool that is widely used in the communication age. This new virtual world, where individuals freely express their opinions and express themselves comfortably, is also used for many different purposes, including personal, institutional and public. In the transformation process, a new interpersonal cyber-virtual world relationship has been created, social relations established in the past and face-to-face relations until today have been replaced by newly established virtual relations. This new digital world also allows individuals to easily exhibit rude and aggressive behaviors that they do not take much responsibility in daily life. The correct correlation between social media addiction and aggression can be widely seen around the world and in our country. Situations such as depression, asociality, emotional emptiness, etc., which we can call mental erosion and which usually occur with social media addiction, appear as situations that trigger aggression. In the study, a questionnaire was applied to 296 individuals. In the survey application, it was seen that there is a demonstrable relationship between social media addiction and aggression. When the participants included in the study were classified according to social media addiction, it was determined that 50% of those with social media addiction were male and 50% were female. It was found that there was no significant difference in terms of gender according to social media addiction. When the duration of social media use was examined by gender, a statistically significant difference was observed in the number of shares and aggression score. Accordingly, the duration of use is higher in women than in men, the number of shares and aggression are higher in men than in women. However, there was no significant difference in the social media addiction score. In other words, men and women have the same addiction structure.