Social Media Addiction in High School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Its Relationship with Sleep Quality and Psychological Problems
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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of social media addiction with sleep quality and psychological problems in high school students. The study is a cross-sectional, correlational type. The study was conducted with 1,274 students receiving education in a district located in the western region of Turkey. For the collection of the data, a Descriptive Information Form, the Social Media Addiction Scale for Adolescents (SMASA), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Sleep Quality Scale (SQS) and the Sleep Variables Questionnaire (SVQ) were used. Among the high school students who participated in the research, 49.3% stated that they had been using social media for 1-3 years, 53.9% reported that they spent 1-3 h per day on social media, and 42.8% stated that they placed their telephone under their pillow or beside their bed while sleeping. Students' mean scores were 16.59 ± 6.79 (range: 9-45) for the SMASA, 16.54 ± 4.27 (range: 0-40) for total difficulties, and 14.18 ± 1.56 (range: 7-21) for the SQS, while their sleep efficiency value was 97.9%. According to the research model, difficulties experienced by high school students increase their social media addiction, while they decrease prosocial behaviours. Social media addiction in high school students decreases students' sleep efficiency (p < 0.05). It is considered important to conduct further public health studies for children and adolescents related to the risks caused by the excessive use of technology, the consequences of social media addiction, measures to protect psychological health, sleep programmes and the importance of sleep quality.
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Social media use is correlated with conduct and emotional problems, attention deficit, peer problems, school impairments, and psychological distress.
“Social media use is also correlated with conduct and emotional problems, attention deficit, peer problems, school impairments, and psychological distress [23,45,61,62].”
From The Use of Social Media in Children and Adolescents: Scoping Review on the Potential Risks. (2022) · cites this paper as [61]
The Results report that social media addiction scores were positively correlated with conduct, emotional, attention-deficit and peer problems; students with poor school achievement also had higher addiction scores. The Discussion reports an association between problematic social media use and psychological distress. The claim broadens these findings from addiction or problematic use to social media use generally, and describes poor school achievement as “school impairments.” Pages are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSocial media addiction in school students decreases students' sleep efficiency.
“It has been demonstrated that social media addiction in school students decreases students’ sleep efficiency [61].”
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- Authors
- Sümen, A., & Evgin, D.
- Affiliations
- Akdeniz University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Sümen, Adem
- ORCID
- Sümen, Adem
- Venue
- Child Indicators Research
- Published
- 2021-08-03
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2265-2283
- ISSN
- 1874-897X (ISSN-L)
- 1874-8988
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- PMC8329411
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Keywords
- social media addiction, sleep quality, mental illness, high school students, adolescents, sleep efficiency, prosocial behavior, technology overuse, adolescent mental health
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