Social media addiction and life satisfaction in sports science students

Abstract

This research investigated the relationship between social media addiction and life satisfaction in sports science students. The sample comprised 229 university students, 118 males and 111 females, studying at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Faculty of Sports Science. The participants were selected using the convenient sampling method. The data were collected with a demographic information form, the “Social Media Addiction Scale” developed by Şahin and Yağcı (2017), and "The Satisfaction with Life Scale" developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985) and adapted into Turkish by Dağlı and Baysal (2016). Percentage and frequency descriptive statistics were used to determine demographic distribution, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed to see whether the data had a normal distribution, which yielded a normal distribution. T-tests and one-way ANOVA were also performed. The findings suggested significant differences in social media addiction by age, class level, economic status, and social media use frequency. Similarly, there were significant differences in participants’ life satisfaction by economic status, class level, and age.