Özet:

This study aimed to examine the relationship between young adult individuals' interpersonal competencies and their social media usage purposes. In addition, within the scope of the research, interpersonal competence levels of young adults, the applications they use in social media, and the differentiation of the time they spent on social media and their usage purposes according to demographic variables such as gender and age were tried to be explained. The sample of the study consists of 411 young adults aged 18-35 living in Erzincan in 2020. Interpersonal Competence and Social Media Network Usage Scales were used as data collection tools. As a result of the research, it was observed that the interpersonal competence levels of the participants showed a tendency to the upper intermediate level and interpersonal competence levels of males were found higher than females. No significant difference was found according to age. It was revealed that the increase in the duration of using social media affects interpersonal competence in different ways. In social media, it was determined that social sharing and communication-based applications (Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter) are preferred more by individuals. In addition, ıt was revealed that young people use social media for research, cooperation, entertainment and content sharing respectively. It was also revealed that while the purpose and duration of daily use of social media do not differ significantly by gender, there are significant differences according to age. It was concluded that interpersonal competence and the purpose of using social media affect each other positively.

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