Predictive Power of Leisure Boredom on Social Media Addiction in University Students

Abstract

People have become active users of Internet and social media applications going into every aspect of life. The purpose of this study was to investigate social media addiction and perception of boredom in leisure with respect to some variables and to examine the predictive power of perception of boredom in leisure on social media addiction. There was a total of 453 (212 females and 241 males) university students selected with convenience sampling method in the study group of the research. The participants filled the “Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form” (SMAS-AF) and “The Leisure Boredom Scale” (LBS). According to t-test results, there was not a statistically significant difference between mean scores in “SMAS-AF” and “LBS” scales. (p>0.01). MANOVA indicated that the main effect of the physical activity participation on the subscales of the “SMAS-AF” and “LBS” was statistically significant (p< 0.05). According to the MANOVA results, significant differences were found in the "SMAS-AF" and “LBS” for daily social media usage frequency, (p< 0.01). According to the results of the correlation test, there was a statistically significant between “SMAS-AF” and “LBS”. Regression analysis indicated that leisure boredom were significant predictors of social media addiction.