Assessment of cyberostracism and personality inventory in first year university students in Türkiye

Aim: Exclusion can occur not only in face-to-face communication but also through social communication tools.All kinds of exclusion through media, such as e-mail, phone calls and messages, and social media sites, are defined as cyberostracism.The study aimed to determine the level of cyberostracism (CO) among students who have just started the university, examine variables that are thought to be related, and to evaluate the relationship between cyberostracism and personality types.Material and Methods: The study covers preparatory and first-year students studying at a total of 209 different universities or colleges in Turkey.The study group consisted of 2953 students.The CO scale was used to measure the participants' level of cyberostracism, and the Ten-item Personality Inventory (TIPI) scale was used to measure their personality types.Results: In the study, the level of cyberostracism was surprisingly low among young people who had just started university.It was determined that personality types (in univariate analysis) and gender, family type, face-to-face communication with friends of young people and creating memberships with hidden identity on social media were predictive factors for cyberostracism (in multivariate analysis) in those who have just started university.Discussion: In order to prevent cyberostracism, it may be useful to guide young people to use social media more consciously in the future.It is necessary to increase awareness on this subject by designing new further studies on the subject in larger groups.