The scale for the individual and social impact of students' social network use: The validity and reliability studies

In this paper, validity and reliability studies of the scale that aims to measure the social network use, the purpose of social networks use and the preferences of the university students between social life and social networks with the positive and negative effects on their lives were presented. SPSS 20 program was utilized for the descriptive statistics, factor, reliability, items analyses and the correlation coefficients calculations. According to the results of the factor analyses done to test the structural validity of the scale, 13 items were grouped under two factors and it explained %59.572 of the total variance of the scale. Internal consistency coefficient for the whole scale was found 0.882 after the reliability analysis was done. While there was positive and moderate relation between the factor total scores, there was a high relation found between all the factors and the scale as a whole. The findings of this study show that the scale is quite valid and reliable. We have developed the use of social network scale.This scale aims to measure students' personal and social impact.By scale, the intended use of students' social network can scientifically calculate.The scale has developed for the lack of literature and an alternative for other scales.

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