Abstract:

Most of the university students continue their education in a city outside of the environment they were born and raised. This distances them from their existing social environment. In this respect, individuals continue their lives with their newly acquired social environment and benefit from social media environments with the purpose of getting rid of their loneliness and distress. In this research axis, the relationship between "The Status of Coping with Distress" and "Social Media Usage" is discussed in the context of the relationship. In this context, a field study was conducted on a total of 400 university students using the “Virtual Socialization Scale” and the “Resistance to Abuse Scale”. The data obtained from the questionnaire forms were analyzed with SPSS 24.0 program. At the end of the study, it was determined that there was a significant relationship between students' being subject to distress, negative affect and sharing. There were also significant relationships between socialization dimension and distress-based and distress-related sub-dimensions.

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