Journals / Türkiye Aile Hekimliği Dergisi / 2020 / Cilt: 24 - Sayı: 1
The relationship between psychological well-being level and virtual environment loneliness level in health workers
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- 41–50
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Abstract
Objective: The use of the Internet/social media, which has become increasingly popular in our daily life, has brought new dimensions to interpersonal communication and relations. The aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between psychological well-being and loneliness levels in health workers and to determine the effects of demographic variables.Methods: The sample of this descriptive study consisted of a total of 325 health workers. The research data were collected with a question-naire including Personal Information Form, Multidimensional Psy-chological Well-Being Scale (MPPS) and Virtual Environment Lone-liness Scale (VELS). Descriptive statistics, Spearman Corelation, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskall-Wallis H test were used for statistical analysis. The statistical significance level was accepted as p˂0.05.Results: The mean age of participants was 30.47±3.28, 80% of them were women, 62.8% were married, 54.2% were nurses and 65.5% were undergraduate/graduate. The mean scores of the participants from the MPPS and VELS were 3.39±0.36 and 3.19±0.53, respec-tively. In this study, Psychological Well-Being scores were found sig-nificantly low in the group who work five years or less than five years, research assistants, having low income perception, found themselves unsuccessful in their careers and spend 1-3 hours on daily social media/internet (p
Özet
Amaç: Gündelik hayatımızda giderek daha çok yer alan internet/sosyal medya kullanımı, kişiler arası iletişim ve ilişkilere yeni boyutlar kazandırmıştır. Çalışmanın amacı, sağlık çalışanlarında psikolojik iyi oluş ve yalnızlık düzeyi arasında bir ilişkinin olup olmadığını araştırmak ve demografik değişkenlerin etkisini be-lirlemektir.Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı tipteki bu araştırmanın örneklemini, üni-versite hastanesinde çalışan 325 sağlık çalışanı oluşturdu. Araş-tırma verileri Kişisel bilgi formu, Çok Boyutlu Psikolojik İyi Oluş Ölçeği (ÇBPİO) ve Sanal Ortam Yalnızlık Ölçeği (SOYÖ) sorularının yer aldığı anket formu ile toplandı. İstatistiksel yön-tem olarak tanımlayıcı istatistikler, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskall–Wallis H ve Spearman Korelasyon analiz testleri kullanıldı ve p