Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship Tendency and Social Media Addiction of Nursing Students

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the factors that affect the entrepreneurship tendencies and social media addiction of nursing students from Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Health Sciences. Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 804 students having education in Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department. In the research Aims of Use of Social Network Sites Scale (AOUSNSS), Social Media Addiction Scale (SMAS), Questionnaire of Characteristics Affecting Entrepreneurship Tendency (QCAET), Questionnaire Including the Statements about Entrepreneurship Tendency (QISAET) were used and qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 students. Results: According to the findings of the research while female students used social media for social interaction-communication and education, male students used it for recognition and publicity. According to SMAS 1.0% of the students were extremely high, 4.5% of them were high, 21.0% were moderately and 40.2% of them were low grade addicted. The point average of SMAS was low for the students 24 years old and over, high for the ones who had working mothers, had lower academic success and who used social network sites. According to QCAET; risk taking and creativity, openness to criticism, extraversion, sentimentality and dreaminess, conservatism and amenableness, nervousness and predictive for male students; risk taking and creativity, openness to criticism for the students who were 24 age and over and employed; extraversion for the students having lessons about entrepreneurship, trustworthiness and assuming responsibility, extraversion point averages the ones with higher academic success were higher. The point average of openness to criticism was higher for the students who stated that the income status of their families was bad, who had 5 or more siblings and who had illiterate mothers. Conservatism and amenableness was high for the ones whose mother was primary school graduate, low for the ones whose father was university graduate. The point average of establishing and running their own business which is a subscale of QISAET was found high for the students who had 5 or more siblings, who had illiterate mother, who were at the age of 24 and over, male students, who had lesson about entrepreneurship, who were working and had a first degree relative establishing his or her own business. Humanism was high for the students with higher academic success; risk aversion was higher for the ones with broken family, who was not working and whose father was university