Abstract:

Social media has occupied an important part of the daily life of young people, especially. However, it is possible to say that young people also play a decisive role in their lives and relationships they have established. The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between the intensity of social media use of university students and their tendencies to violence. For this purpose, the factors of Buss-Perry’s (1992) Aggression Scale have determined the connection of physical aggression, anger, hostility, verbal aggression with the intensity of social media use. The scale of Ellison and others (2007) has also been used by adapting to Turkish to determine the intensity of social media use of university students. The study used the survey method to analyze the relationship between the intensity of social media use and aggression. The difference between the variables and the medium of the scale and the total and low-dimensional points is measured by the Man-Whitney U and the Kruskal Wallis test, while the relationship between the intensity of social media use and the level of aggression is measured by the Spearman Correlation test. According to this study, the intensity of social media use and the level of aggression of participants vary according to gender, the number of faculties and virtual friends who are trained. The level of social media use is associated with the low-dimensions of the aggression factor, while there is no connection between physical aggression, anger, oral aggression and the low-dimensions of hostility. It has also been achieved as a result that the subdimensions of the aggression factor are highly linked to one another in a positive direction.