Query: social media addiction

title: Effect of Social Media Addiction on Reading Culture: A Study of Nigerian Students
abstract: Anyira explores the effect of social addiction on reading culture among Nigerian students Addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop engaging in an activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm It is a condition in which one who is addicted could no longer have control over an activity at the expense of more gainful or harmless activity A person is said to be addicted when he/she becomes dependent on an activity as a lifestyle Oftentimes, an activity in which one is addicted to is a potential threat to other activities which are more gainful In this case, social media addiction among students is a potential threat to reading culture in Nigeria In spite of these numerous benefits, reading culture among students in Nigeria is on the decline It is common knowledge that a good number of higher institution students have completely lost interest in reading Faculty members across departments oftentimes lament the outbreak of poor reading habits among their students Many of these students do not write in class as they are not interested in reading them later That flair for reading among students is fast fading in an alarming rate

title: Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO
abstract: In this study, it is aimed to investigate direct and indirect effects of Social Media Addiction (SMA) Social Media Usage (DSMU) and Personality Traits beyond BIG 5 on Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) The research was based on quantitative research methods conducted in accordance with the relational survey model and 845 prospective students studying at Sakarya University Faculty of Education were included by stratified sampling method. The path analysis was performed to examine the direct and indirect effects of the variables by AMOS and SPSS. The results show that FOMO directly and positively predicted by SMA, and DSMU had a significant and positive effect on SMA while DSMU having no effect on FOMO. Finally, the results on personality traits and FOMO indicated that agreeableness (AGR) personality trait had a positive effect on FOMO while other personality traits did not. In the study, results were discussed within the framework of the literature.

title: Social media addiction among Moroccan university students: a cross sectional survey
abstract: social media (SM) has become an increasingly popular leisure activity over the last decade with excessively use. Social media addiction is often associated with negative effects. University students are a particularly vulnerable group to SM addiction. The objective of the study was to assess SM addiction among Moroccan university students and its negative effects on their lives.  a cross sectional survey was conducted among university students in Faculty of letters and Human sciences of Ibn TOFAIL University of KENITRA. A total of 104 students were included. The Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) was used to assess the level of SM addiction.  the median age was 22 years. The most social networking sites used among the study population were facebook and watsup. Seventy three point five percent of the students daily used the internet for social networking the last seven days with an average of more than four hours per day in 68.8% Fifty seven percent of the students had a BSMAS score 18 showing that they may have or be developing an actual addiction to using SM. More than half of the participants has experienced a negative impact of the SM use on their job, relationship or studies, health and well being.  there is a need to focus on SM addiction as worldwide problematic issue and behavioral disorder increasingly reported by younger internet users especially university students to undertake the appropriate preventive measures to reduce the burden of SM addiction and its negative effects on people lives.

title: Social Media Addiction and Academic Adjustment: The Mediating or Moderating Effect of Grit Personality
abstract: The high attrition rate among Malaysian tertiary students have drawn the attention of educators and policy makers, and poor academic adjustment is regarded as one of the factors. Therefore, it is important to find out factors that are relevant to their poor academic adjustment so that intervention programs can be designed to improve their adjustment. Social media addiction and the grit personality have found to be significant factors that affect academic performance. However, it is not clear how the three variables interact with each other. Accordingly, this study adopts the essentialist and contextual perspectives to examine the relationships among these three variables, especially whether grit is a mediator or moderate for the relationship. 210 undergraduates were recruited by using the purposive sampling method and were asked to fill in a questionnaire. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyze the data. The results showed that social media addiction is negatively associated with grit personality and academic adjustment, and grit is positively associated with academic adjustment. In addition, grit is a statistical mediator rather than a statistical moderator for the effect of social media addiction on academic lifestyle. The findings support the contextual perspective on personality that grit personality is a state that can be changed by certain social context. The findings reveal the importance of providing a positive social context for tertiary students who are undergoing a transition period, so that their grit personality can be developed and thus enhance their academic adjustment.

title: Social Media Addiction of New Media and Journalism Students.
abstract: Social media addiction problem emerges when the users cannot limit the use of social media networks and spend more time online. Today social media platforms have become work habits in many work areas as well media industry. So, it is important to determine the social media addiction tendency of university students who will work in the media after graduation. The aim of this research is to investigate social media addiction of the New Media and Journalism students, who were heavy users of new media tools, at Uskudar University. The sample of the research consists of 85 students from New Media and Journalism Department. The research was conducted using a comparative survey model, with the data collected from Social Media Addiction Scale developed by Tutgun Unal and Deniz (2015) and social media addiction of students were examined in terms of various demographic variables. In the research, social media addiction of the students was found to be low. When the sub scales were examined, occupation and mood modification levels of social media addiction of students were found to be moderate. The findings of the research revealed that (a) Social media addiction increases as the daily time spent increases, (b) Students sharing photos in social media by applying filter/makeup were found to be more addicted regarding the mood modification aspect, (c) Students use social media when they wake up in the morning, during the day, and before bed, (d) New Media and Journalism students' Instagram use is high, followed by students using Twitter the most.

title: Academic Procrastination Among University Students in Saudi Arabia and Its Association with Social Media Addiction
abstract: The current study assessed the levels of Academic Procrastination (AP) its relationship with social media addiction, and its predictors among university students in Saudi Arabia.  A cross sectional study was conducted on a sample of 697 students at Taif University. Participants provided information about their basic demographic data and completed both the Internet Addiction Scale and the Tuckman Procrastination Scale (TPS)  Overall, students show moderate levels of AP. Students' AP and social media addiction were significantly associated. Addiction to social media, daily hours using social media, household size, and phone use during lectures were markedly correlated with AP. Predictors of procrastination explained 22.2% of its variation and included daily hours of social media use, phone usage frequency during lecture time, and social media addiction.  The findings of this study have important implications for educators, psychologists, and students to address the problems associated with social media addiction and AP.

title: Study of depression, anxiety, and social media addiction among undergraduate students
abstract: This paper studies the connection between social media addiction and mental disorder from the existing investigation among undergraduate students. A comprehensive document search was conducted by using six electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, JSTOR, ProQuest Education to identify articles published before November 21st, 2019. All collected papers focused on studying social media addiction and psychosis. Two reviewers individualistically evaluated the quality of the study by using the Joanna Briggs Institute's approach. Five articles were filtered out through the screening process and included in the review. The high prevalence of social addiction among college students (9.7% 41% has been clarified. The association between social media addiction and mental disorders is positive for student health. This article contributes to raising awareness and finding solutions to these risk problems. The study also confirms the connection between online shopping addiction and eating disorders among social addicts. We also discuss the causes and harms of social media addiction.

title: Social Media Addiction Among Individuals Who Underwent Rhinoplasty: Myth or Reality?
abstract: Social media addiction is currently a common problem worldwide. Studies have suggested that individuals who underwent rhinoplasty are susceptible to the aforementioned condition, but no evidence based research has been conducted to derive a definitive conclusion to this issue.  This study was aimed at comparing the self esteem, body perception, and social media use of individuals with and without a history of rhinoplasty.  The study was conducted at two treatment centers. Rhinoplasty patients were selected from those who sought treatment in the private clinic of one of the researchers, whereas the control cohort participants were chosen from among employees of a university hospital. After the implementation of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 100 patients and 102 healthy unmatched control subjects were enrolled in the research.  The collected sociodemographic data covered age, gender, years of education, and type of social media use. Social media addiction was measured using the social media addiction scale, self esteem was ascertained with the Rosenberg self esteem scale, and body perception was assessed using the body perception scale. The independent samples t test was conducted twice to compare the mean scores of the participants, and mediation analysis was carried out to determine the effects of body image and self esteem scores on social media addiction scores. Two sided p values were calculated, and differences were considered significant at the 0.1, 0.05, and 0.001 levels.  The groups obtained similar body image and self esteem scores, but the difference in the social media addiction scores of the rhinoplasty patients and control participants was statistically significant at the 0.05 level, with the former having higher addiction scores. On the basis of the cutoff for social media addiction, 8 and 10 participants from the rhinoplasty and control groups, respectively, exhibited signs of dependency on Web based social networks and similar innovations. The self esteem scores (X) and body image scores (M) predicted the social media addiction scores (Y) The coefficient of the body image scores was statistically significant, but that of the self esteem scores was not. The X M Y model indicated statistically significant effects.  We compared the social media usage of rhinoplasty patients and control participants. Our findings indicated no evidentiary support for the view of rhinoplasty patients as social media addicts and suggested that such a perception is a form of stigmatization.

title: Participation in Physical Activity and Social Media Addiction in Students
abstract: The purpose of this research was to examine participation in physical activity and social media addiction among university students. A total of 462 university students from 3 different universities voluntarily participated in the study. In the study, the "Motivation Scale for Participation in Physical Activity" and "Facebook addiction scale" were used as data collection tools. In the study, the independent sample t test and One way ANOVA test were applied for normally distributed data depending on the number of variables. Also, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. According to the simple linear regression analysis conducted to determine the effect of motivation on participation in physical activity on social media addiction, it was determined that the model established was statistically significant (F=70.305; p<0.05) and the ratio of explanation of the dependent variable by the independent variable was R2=0.182. It was determined that the most important factor that motivates students to participate in physical activity is individualistic reasons. Individualistic reasons were followed by environmental and causality factors, respectively. The results of the study show that students' participation in physical activity and social media addiction was not significantly differ in terms of their gender.

title: Social Media Addiction among Students at Public University
abstract: Improvement in data transfer speed and constant, continuous innovation in software and hardware, and humans' communication and networking through social media networking have become much easier and breezier. Complex and data heavy information, such as high definition videos, can be shared with million other users all over the planet at the ease of fingertips in just 1/1000th second. For the above reasons, social media have become a handy, crucial, and effective tool for users to propagate and seek useful and vital information. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to identify a relationship between independent variables and dependent variable. The factors that have been analysed include intrinsic reasons, information seeking and sharing, and social media addiction. The study was conducted by using a quantitative method by distributing questionnaires to the degree students of a public university in the east coast of Malaysia. The respondents were from a group of students from the total population of 2,007 and the sample size was 327 students. The data from the questionnaires have been analysed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Version 23. Reliability analysis, frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis are used in the research. The results prove that there are moderate and weak relationships among the variables.