PENGARUH SHARED REALITY TERHADAP KEBAHAGIAAN PADA PENGGUNA MEDIA SOSIAL USIA DEWASA MENENGAH

Aulia Rahmita (Program Studi Psikologi Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin)
Lita Ariani (Program Studi Psikologi Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin)

AL-ULUM : Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora
Vol 8, No 1 (2022): Edisi April

Social media has been used by various age groups, including middle-aged adults. Thepurpose of this study was to determine the effect of shared reality on happiness in middle-aged adult social media users. The hypothesis of this study is that there is an effect ofshared reality on happiness in middle-aged adult social media users. The subjects of thisstudy were 111 people, with the criteria of individuals aged 40-60 years, having socialmedia, and actively using social media to share their daily activities and communicate.Measurements were made using a shared reality scale and a happiness scale. The dataanalysis method used is a simple linear regression test using SPSS 23.0 (StatisticalPackages for the Social Sciences The results of this study indicate that there is an effect,with a regression value of t = 4.004 and a significance of 0.000 (<0.05). These resultsindicate that there is a significant influence between shared reality on happiness in middle-aged adult social media users.