The mediating effect of social media addiction on the relationship between social and emotional loneliness and marital adjustment in married women

Aim: This study aimed to determine the mediating effect of social media addiction on the relationship between social and emotional loneliness and marital adjustment in married women.Material and Methods: The study was descriptive and relational. The sample consisted of 569 married women. Personal Information Form, Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S), Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), and Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form (SMAS-AF) were used to collect the data.Results: There was a small positive correlation between the mean SMAS-AF score and the mean SELSA-S score (r=0.296; p