The relationship of university students social media addiction levels with behavior and adaptation problems

Every individüalist(adolescent,young,middle age can use actively social media,elderly)in daily life and social media can affect every part of people's life(cultural,social,econimic,political).For this reason,both the wishes and needs of the individüalist and the use of social media when necessary creates an environment for social media usage.Therefore we selected for research abouth the university students problem of social media addiction levels of university students and their behavioral and adaptation problems. The sample of the study comprises 163 students studying at the Department of Psychology at İstanbul Gelişim University.We used simple random sampling method in sample selection.The data on social media addiction in the research are calling "Social Media Addiction-Adult Form"(Şahin&Yağcı,2017) and data on behavior and adaptation problems are "Adaptation Scale University Form(Prof.Dr.Adnan Kulaksızoğlu,Exp.Bülent Dilmaç,Dr.Halil Ekşi,Exp.Mustafa Otrar)."Personel Information Form"was used to collect data on demographic variables(age,gender,class level,academic achicvement,grade average,duration of social media usage(years)social media usage time(daily). The analysis of the data obtained by data collection wherewithal in the research was carried out in the computer environment by using the "SPSS STATISTICS 25.00"package program .For the analysis of the data,Mann Whitney U Testi,Kruskall Wallis Test all pairwise method was used as a pairwise comparison method.Spermann Correlation was used to examine the liaison between dimensions. In accordance with the research results,it was determined that social media addiction differs from demographic variables according to age,annual use,and daily usage tıme.In connection with this,it observed that the group with high and very high social media addiction levels had higher levels of adjustment problems compared to the group with very low addiction.