Bireysel Sosyal Medya Kullanımının Psikolojik Semptomlar Üzerine Etkileri

Abstract

Social media is generally defined as platforms through which the users are able to systematically establish communication or interaction, self-presentation can be realized through their sharing, and the need for socialization can be virtually realized. Particularly in recent years, the use of social media has emerged as an outstanding problem with the increasing use of the internet, mobile phones, tablets, computers and other mass media in the field of communication around the world as well as in our country. This rapidly erupted situation is also considered to cause mass physical and psychological health problems all over the world. The main reasons behind the increase use of social media are mainly depend on the attitudes of individuals towards social media and the related psychological symptoms. These symptoms can be summarized as somatization; transformation of stress into somatic symptoms, OCD; obsessive thought disorder, interpersonal sensitivity; feelings that cause difficulties in relationships, depression; sadness and depressed mood, anxiety; excessive and constant anxiety, paranoid thinking; emotional states such as suspecting and not trusting anyone, psychotism; lack of empathy with an aggressive instinct, additional scale; and measuring the amount of conditions such as anorexia and insomnia. The current study mainly focuses on the investigations of social media levels of individuals, the factors affecting social media use and the relationship between social media use and psychological symptoms. The relational scanning model was used in the research. The study sample was constructed by 373 participants (239 females and 134 male) who voluntarily joined the online survey application. The demographics and other data was collected via SCL-90-R symptom screening test was statistically analyzed.