The Effect of Using Social Media and Attitudes Towards Infidelity on the Intentions Towards Infidelity Among Young Adults

Abstract

Young adulthood is one of the periods of developmental duties such as starting a professional life and choosing a spouse. With the help of developing technology and the intensive use of the internet, young adults use social media in intense ways and prefer social media to initiate and maintain relationships. At the same time, romantic relationships of individuals can sometimes be damaged by deception. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the use of social media and the use of deception in this period when the use of social media is so intense. Social media use scale, attitude towards deceit and intent to deceive scale were used in the research. According to research findings, the results of cross-tabulation according to sexual experience and relationship status of gender variable of young adults were examined. In addition, the extent to which young adults exploit their intent to deceive was examined by means of regression analysis. gender, use of social media, attitudes towards positive-negative deception (attitude scale subdimensions for deception) significantly predicted the intention to deceive variables

Keywords

• Genç yetişkin, aldatma, sosyal medya kullanımı