The Effects of Individual Social Media Use on Psychological Symptoms
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2020
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Social media is generally defined as platforms through which the users areable to systematically establish communication or interaction, selfpresentation can be realized through their sharing, and the need forsocialization can be virtually realized. Particularly in recent years, the use ofsocial media has emerged as an outstanding problem with the increasing useof the internet, mobile phones, tablets, computers and other mass media inthe field of communication around the world as well as in our country. Thisrapidly erupted situation is also considered to cause mass physical andpsychological health problems all over the world. The main reasons behindthe increase use of social media are mainly depend on the attitudes ofindividuals towards social media and the related psychological symptoms.These symptoms can be summarized as somatization; transformation ofstress into somatic symptoms, OCD; obsessive thought disorder,interpersonal sensitivity; feelings that cause difficulties in relationships,depression; sadness and depressed mood, anxiety; excessive and constantanxiety, paranoid thinking; emotional states such as suspecting and nottrusting anyone, psychotism; lack of empathy with an aggressive instinct,additional scale; and measuring the amount of conditions such as anorexiaand insomnia. The current study mainly focuses on the investigations ofsocial media levels of individuals, the factors affecting social media use andthe relationship between social media use and psychological symptoms. Therelational scanning model was used in the research. The study sample wasconstructed by 373 participants (239 females and 134 male) who voluntarilyjoined the online survey application. The demographics and other data wascollected via SCL-90-R symptom screening test was statistically analyzed.
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İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi
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9
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5
