COVID-19 pandemic, family climate, and social media addiction among pharmacy faculty students
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to social isolation. This resulted in the use of the internet in connection with the outside world. This poses a risk for social media addiction, both now and in the future. This study aims to investigate the relationship between social media addiction and family climate in the shade of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, social media addiction was studied according to demographical features as the subgoals of the study. The research was conducted on 364 university students from the pharmacy faculty. Data were collected with a questionnaire, based on Demographical Information Form, Social Media Addiction Scale, and Family Climate Scale. The results showed that there were negative correlations between social media addiction and the cognitive cohesion subdimension of family climate. Only cognitive cohesion predicted social media addiction 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: Addiction; Covid-19; family; Pandemic; social media.
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