The relationship of social media addiction and family climate of students of pharmacy faculty in the shade of COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes in everyone’s lives. Especially with the social isolation process, people have moved their entire lives to their homes. In this case, the use of the internet in connection with the outside world has brought an important point. This situation poses a risk for social media addiction for the future. On this basis the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social media addiction and family climate in the shade of COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, the social media addiction was studied according to demographical features as the subgoals of the study. The research group was conducted by 364 university students of pharmacy faculty. Data was collected with Demographical Information Form, Social Media Addiction Scale and Family Climate Scale. The results showed that there were negative correlations found between social media addiction and cognitive cohesion subdimension of family climate. And only cognitive cohesion predicted social media addiction significantly. Also the findings indicated that the using ratios of social media accounts during the pandemic period were increased significantly. As a result of the study, the family relationships of the students were also examined within the scope of the pandemic period and their relationship with social media addiction was emphasized.

Keywords: Pandemic; Covid-19; family climate; social media addiction