SOCIAL NETWORK USE AND PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS LIFE SATISFACTION AND SELF

Social networks represent today an important tool for interpersonal communication among adolescents and young adults, which enables users to share and create information. Today many millions of people around the world are connected by being members of various Internet social networks. Studies have shown a connection between the individual personality of the user and the way he or she behaves on line, however existing research on the relationships between SNSs and people's life satisfaction and self-esteem tends to be limited in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research focuses the relationship between life satisfaction and self-esteem among users of social networks. The participants were 774 pre-service teachers aged 19-24. To determine the empirical data we used the following research methods: Life Satisfaction Questionnaire, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Sociodemographic questionnaire. A relationship was found between Life Satisfaction and Self-esteem among social network users.