Social media addiction in middle and high school students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19)‎ pandemic

Abstract EN

This study aims to find out the reality of Social Media Addiction (SMA) in middle and high school students during the outbreak of the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, through the statistical differences identification in the variables of academic level, gender, practice of sport and its type.

The descriptive approach has been used in this study.

The Social Media Addiction Scale - Student Form (SMA-SF) was used for SMA “Cengiz Şahin 2018''; which consists of 28 items as a main tool for this study.

The studied sample was chosen by the intentional method, which consisted of 35 participants whose ages ranged from 11 to 18 years.

After analyzing and treating the obtained results, with a set of statistical means using the program of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.

0 (SPSS22), .

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28% students were having mild addiction of social media, while 65.

72% students were having moderate addiction.

In addition, it was observed that there is no severe addiction.

Moreover, they found that there were no significant differences observed in all studied variables with regard to the SMAS-SF.