مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Facebook Connection Strategies and Life Satisfaction of University Students

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate university students’ Facebook connection strategies and life satisfaction. The study was conducted during the 2014-2015 academic year and 281 university students constituted its research group. Relational survey model, one of the survey models, was used in the study, which aimed at describing the current situation. “Facebook Connection Strategies Scale” was used to identify the students’ Facebook connection strategies and “Life Satisfaction Scale” was used to determine their life satisfaction. The data obtained from the study indicated a positive and significant correlation between the students’ life satisfaction and Facebook connection strategies (initiating, maintaining and information-seeking). Moreover, research findings also indicated that the students’ Facebook connection strategies (initiating, maintaining and information-seeking) and life satisfaction varied significantly by the variables of the type of school they attended, computer ownership and duration of their Facebook use. The results also showed that the students’ Facebook connection strategies differed significantly according to the variables of gender (in initiating, maintaining and information-seeking sub-dimensions), internet ownership (in initiating, maintaining and information-seeking sub-dimensions), housing type (in the initiating sub-dimension) and their hometown (in the information-seeking sub-dimension).