The Effect of Social Studies and Science Teachers’ Interactions with their Students in Social Media and Anxiety in Social Environments on Various Variables

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the effects of secondary school Social Studies and Science teachers’ interactions with their students in social media and the effects of anxiety in social environments on various variables. The sample of the study, which was conducted using the survey model, consisted of 216 Social Studies and Science teachers. Data were collected according to the gender, age, branch, professional seniority, education level and social media usage time of the sample. The Social Media Teacher Student Interaction Scale developed by Korucu and Usta (2017) and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale developed by Dilbaz (2001) were used as data collection tools. Since the teachers’ responses to the items in the scale showed normal distribution, the data were analysed using parametric tests. Some of the results obtained from the research are as follows: it was determined that there was no significant difference in the opinions of teachers in terms of gender, branch, professional seniority, education level and duration of social media use. However, it was concluded that there was a significant difference in terms of age variable in terms of teachers’ use of social media in student interaction. According to this result, it was determined that teachers between the ages of 21-30 use social media more for student-teacher interaction