Coping with Loneliness: Loneliness, Religious Coping, Religiosity, Life Satisfaction and Social Media Usage

Loneliness that has spread rapidly today and has adversely affected the quality of life and happiness of people, has become one of the most important social problems especially in America and Europe. This fact led to the establishment of a ministry responsible for loneliness in England, and this research comprises loneliness as one of the main research topics, to comprehend the level of loneliness among university students who are representatives of a young generation in Turkey. This study was conducted on a 416 students sample from different faculties of the University of Ordu. In the questionnaire form; UCLA loneliness scale, religious coping and life satisfaction scales were used. In addition, questions were asked to determine the participants' perceptions of individual religiousness and social media use. As a result of analyzes made with SPSS statistical program; there is a negative relationship between religiousness and loneliness, negative religious achievement, level of visibility in social media, and the number of social media in use; a positive relationship was found between religiousness and positive religious achievement. It has also been understood that the subjective perception of religiousness does not lead to a difference in gender but leads to a difference in life satisfaction. While a negative relationship between loneliness and positive religious coping, life satisfaction and messaging is detected, a positive satisfaction between life satisfaction and positive religious achievement, the negative relationship between negative religious coping and the presence of interaction was detected. This study is important in that many variables deal with each other and their interactions. Summary: In this study, basically the relations and interactions between loneliness and subjective perception of religiosity, religious coping, life satisfaction, the tendency of internet and social media use are discussed. To our best knowledge, there is no study that has examined the relationship between loneliness and religiosity, religious coping, using the internet and social media. Therefore, this study aims at bridging the research gap through investigating loneliness levels of students and the other factors as stated above at a state university in Turkey from their perspectives. This study used a survey model. The data was collected by means of questionare. Four hundred-sixteen students (e.g. 238 females and 178 males) studying at theology, agriculture, medicine, education, and art faculties in a state university participated in the study. In the first