Determination of the relationship between the participation level of university students to physical activity and their social media addiction
Purpose: This study was made in order to assess the relationship between the social media addiction of the students studying in the physical education and sports academy and their level of participation to physical activity according to some variables, starting from the importance of social media addiction creating the sedentary life based on the popular usage of internet.
Method: The research group consisted of 143 students studying in the Physical Education and Sport Academy, Bartın University. In the research, as the data collection tool, developed by (Craig et al., 2003). The validity and reliability study of UFAA, the “international physical activity survey” done by (Öztürk, 2005) and the social media addiction scale, developed by (Ünal, 2015) were used. The data obtained for the research were primarily transferred to the computer environment and then, analyzed via SPSS 22 package software. The error margin level was taken as p
Keywords:
University, Student, Social Media and Physical Activity,
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- ISSN: 2148-1148
- Başlangıç: 2013
- Yayıncı: Uluslararası Bilim Kültür ve Spor Derneği (UBİKS)