Social Media Real and False Self Will to Power (RFSWP) Defense Mechanisms and Research Results

Abstract The underlying reason why people participate in social media and follow people like famous, elite, powerful and phenomenal is that they want to gain power, cooperate with power and be a part of power. While people want to be a part of the power by participating in the social media game, the will to power the actual and false self also exhibits the behavioral characteristics of the defense mechanisms. As a result, people realize their security request; eliminate the deficiencies that he has begun to feel in themselves; It satisfies the will-to power-needs by realizing its efforts to defeat and gain superiority. This research aims to examine the relationship of social media (independent variable) with will to power defense mechanisms, which are explained as mechanisms of real and false self (dependent variables. The social media real and false self will to power (RFSWP) defense mechanisms scale developed by the research author. According to the results of the research, the will to power defense mechanisms examined in the research are carried out by digital immigrants and digital natives in social media, and digital immigrants and digital natives make efforts in social media to use will to power defense mechanisms. The study is important in that it proposes to add the "power will defense mechanism" to the defense mechanisms.