A STUDY TO DEVELOP A SCALE OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS ON FACEBOOK

Volume: 1 Number: 1 June 30, 2016
  • Ertuğrul Uçar
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A STUDY TO DEVELOP A SCALE OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS ON FACEBOOK

Abstract

One of the social networking sites, Facebook has more than 14 million users in Turkey, which places Turkey into third position among all countries. As revealed by research, social networking sites are environments used by people to express their emotions. The current study aims to develop a scale to determine what types of emotions are expressed by university students on Facebook. The study group of the present research consists of 347 students from the Education Faculty of Aksaray University in the city of Aksaray in the fall term of 2012. As a result of extreme value analysis, 15 observations were excluded from the analysis and thus, analyses were conducted on the data collected from the remaining 322 participants. In the present study, in order to test the construct validity of the scale factor analysis was run and KMO was found to be .78. principal components analysis was conducted to determine the factors on the data. Exploratory and confirmatary Factor Analysis revealed that the items are subsumed under three factors being loving Facebook, feeling comfortable on Facebook with a pseudo name and felling uncomfortable with the sharings on Facebook. In the reliability analysis of the Scale of Expressing Emotions on Facebook, Cronbach Alpha was found to be .82. This value shows that the scale is moderately reliable.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

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Authors

Ertuğrul Uçar
AKSARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye

Publication Date

June 30, 2016

Submission Date

March 11, 2016

Acceptance Date

April 23, 2016

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Uçar, E. (2016). FACEBOOK’TA DUYGULARI İFADE ETME ÖLÇEĞİ GELİŞTİRME ÇALIŞMASI. Ihlara Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(1), 41-57. https://izlik.org/JA47NL83HN

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