Özet:

Wattpad is a social networking platform developed as a reading and writing application. With the influence of mass communication tools, the application is becoming increasingly popular not only in the virtual environment, but also in the everyday life of young people. This situation draws attention to the meaning and possible effects of the stories or novels shared in the application for young people who are the followers of the application. In this context, the study was carried out with the idea of being able to reveal the potential effects of the novels produced by the user of the application, the problems of young people, the solutions strategies for their problems, and their shared strategies through the application. In this regard, the main purpose of the research is to study the contents of the novel produced in practice, the problems of young people, risk-taking, violence and aggression behaviors as a solution strategy. The findings of the study were obtained as a result of the study of the five Wattpad novels, which were converted to the most popular, printed edition, with the method of content analysis. The content analysis criteria are created based on the Rosenberg Self-Perception Scale, Adolescent Health and Development Reserve, Adolescent Risk Behavior Scale, Violence Tendence and Aggression Scale and Adolescent Emotional Psychological Abuse Short Form with Parents and Youth Relations Scale. The findings have found that the novel fantasies are created in the context of the developmental needs and problems of the adolescence period, the character's negative self-perception, the use of substance primarily many risk-taking behaviors, violence and aggressive behaviors, unhealthy family patterns, problems of adaptation to school are depicted.

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