- Üsküdar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
- Issue: 16
- Adaptation of Social Media Rumination Scale into Turkish and Its Association with Social Media Anxie...
Adaptation of Social Media Rumination Scale into Turkish and Its Association with Social Media Anxiety
Authors : Elif Manuoğlu
Pages : 153-169
Doi:10.32739/uskudarsbd.9.16.123
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Publication Date : 2023-06-29
Article Type : Research Article
Abstract :The common usage of social media has raised some concerns over the psychological well-being of users in recent years. Thus, examining the role of social media on the well-being of individuals has gained more importance. The goal of the present study is twofold. Firstly, it aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Social Media Rumination Scale. Secondly, it aims to test the link between social media anxiety and social media rumination, which are two psychological phenomena observed in social media. This study was conducted with 467 university students (female 69%, Mage = 21.90, and SD = 2.88). Findings showed that the single-factor structure of the original scale was not verified. However, according to Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the two-factor structure of the scale has good psychometric properties. Moreover, shared content anxiety and privacy concern anxiety, the subscales of the Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users predicted subfactors of social media rumination controlling for sex and the average social media use duration. Given the limited research to measure rumination and anxiety with specially designed tools in social media contexts, this study provided the first direct Evidence that social media rumination is related to social media anxiety.Keywords : Sosyal Medya, Ruminasyon, Kaygı, Ölçek Uyarlama, Genç Yetişkinler