An Investigation of the Preservice Science Teachers’ Social Media Addictions

The aim of this study is to investigate the levels of preservice science teachers’ social media addictions and also, to compare in terms of of gender and grade. For this aim, the data were collected through “Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form” which was originally developed by Sahin and Yagci (2017). The sample of the study, consisted of 189 preservice science teachers working in Education Faculty of Ataturk University. The data were analyzed by SPSS 20.0 program. The findings indicated that the preservice science teachers agreed in average score the statements of the Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form. The findings in terms of sub-dimensions of the overall scale indicated that preservice science teachers agreed in average score for virtual tolerance and in low score for virtual communication. The findings also indicated that there was no a statistically important difference between gender, but there was a statistically important difference between grades