Participation in Physical Activity and Social Media Addiction in Students

The purpose of this research was to examine participation in physical activity and social media addiction among university students. A total of 462 university students from 3 different universities voluntarily participated in the study. In the study, the "Motivation Scale for Participation in Physical Activity" and "Facebook addiction scale" were used as data collection tools. In the study, the independent sample t-test and One-way ANOVA test were applied for normally distributed data depending on the number of variables. Also, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. According to the simple linear regression analysis conducted to determine the effect of motivation on participation in physical activity on social media addiction, it was determined that the model established was statistically significant (F=70.305; p