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- Title
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
- Authors
TOSUN, ALİME SELÇUK; LOK, NESLIHAN; LOK, SEFA
- Abstract
Objectives. This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between social network addiction and physical activity in university students. Methods.This research is of descriptive relational type. The research was carried out with 100 university students. In collecting data, socio demographic information form, International physical activity questionnaire and Social Network Addiction scale were used. In evaluating the demographic data of the study, Mann Whitney U test was used to evaluate the relationship between number and percentage distributions, socio demographic characteristics, and the International Physical Activity questionnaire and Social Network Addiction scale, and pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the International physical activity questionnaire and Beck depression scale. Results.The average age of students is 22.3±3.15, 65% boys, 35% girls, 35% mother high school graduates, 43% father university graduates, 67% longest living place metropolitan and 52% perceive their health moderately. When students' social network addiction scale sub-dimension mean scores are examined, the point of attention attention sub-dimension mean score is 25.17±2.30, the mood-change sub-dimension mean score is 19.14 ± 1.45, the withdrawal symptoms sub-dimension mean score is 14 The mean score of 35 ± 1.08, conflict sub-height is 23.38 ± 3.07, the recurrence sub-dimension score average is 17.45 ± 3.24 and the total score average of social network addiction is 99.49 ± 7.65. When the relationship between physical activity levels and social network addiction was evaluated, there was a strong negative relationship between physical activity and social network addiction's attention, mood change, withdrawal symptoms, conflict and relapse subdimensions( p:0,0001). Conclusions. In terms of physical activity, girls are in the risk group of those whose mother education level is primary school, father education level is secondary school, those who perceive their health poorly and who live in the metropolitan for a long time.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media addiction; PHYSICAL activity; MANN Whitney U Test; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; COLLEGE students; STUDENT activities; SOCIAL networks; MENARCHE
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2020, Vol 20, p181
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article