Abstract:

The aim of the study is to study the relationship between adolescent attitudes towards social media and conscious levels of awareness and whether these variables differ according to gender and the time spent on social media. The research work group consists of 9, 10, 11, 12th grade 555 students (272 girls, 283 men) studying in Istanbul in the 2020-2021 educational year. For the purpose of collecting data, the personal information form, the social media attitude scale, the comprehensive awareness experience inventory for adolescents were used. The research findings have found a meaningful relationship between the social media attitude of students and the subdimensions of the inventory of conscious awareness experiences, the awareness of internal experience, the proportionality of thoughts, the intuitive understanding in the positive direction; the behavior in the consciousness, the sensitive relationship in the negative direction between being open to experience. Students’ attitudes in social media have shown significant differences depending on gender and time spent on social media. The student’s conscious awareness experiences have found that the subdimensions of external experience, the consciousness of behavior, the reception and non-judgment orientation, decentralization and disresponsibility, the openness to experience, the subdimensions of intuitive understanding differ significantly according to gender. The student’s conscious awareness experiences have found that the subdimensions of behavior with consciousness, acceptance and non-judgment orientation, decentralization and non-reaction, exposure to experience, significantly differ according to the time spent on social media.

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