Abstract:

This research was conducted to examine the relationship between academic procrastination behavior and social media addiction of the university students and this it is conducted with relational scaning model. Universe constitutes the teacher candidates who are studying in different departments at Ağrı İbrahim Chechen University Faculty of Education In the 2016-2017 academic year. The "Social Media Addiction Scale" developed by Tutgun, Ünal and Deniz (2015) was used to measure the socio-demographic characteristics, media usage patterns and social media addiction of the prospective teachers in the research and "Academic Postponement Scale" developed by Çakıcı (2003) was used to examine the academic behavior cases. The "Social Addiction Scale" is a 5-point likert type scale and consists of 4 sub-dimensions and 41 items. The internal consistency coefficient is 0.967. The "Academic Postponement Scale" is a likert type scale with 5 items and consists of 19 items and the internal consistency coefficient is 0.92. According to the findings obtained from the research; Women are more engaged with social media than men, class is a factor affecting conflict, and as the class progresses, conflict in the social media is diminishing, there is no meaningful difference according to the family income status variable of the academic postponement level. The difference between the social media addiction level of the teacher candidates and the educational attainment level of the academic attitude is not significant compared to the educational attainment variable of the parents. Those who have membership in social media are more engaged with social media. the duration of social site usage is a factor affecting occupation and as the duration of social site usage increases, occupation with social media is increasing, the frequency of use of social sites is a factor affecting occupation and as the usage frequency of social sites increases, occupation with social media increases. the difference between the level of academic postponement and the time spent on social site use is not significant, there was a significant positive correlation between Occupation, Emotional Situation, Repetition and Conflict, and Academic Postponement scores.

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