The Role of Social Comparison and Rumination in Predicting Social Media Addiction

The aim of this study is to determine the social media addiction levels of university students and examine whether their social comparison orientations and ruminative responses significantly predict social media addiction. The study group consists of 261 university students. “Social Media Addiction Scale”, “Iowa-Netherlands Social Comparison Orientation Measure” and “Ruminative Response Scale, Short Form” were applied to the participants. Frequency, percentage and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the obtained data. As a result of the study, it was found out that university students were less addicted on social media. As a result of the regression analysis, it was determined that obsessive thinking, deep thinking and social comparison had significant effects in predicting social media addiction. It was concluded that obsessive thinking and social comparison predicted positively, whereas deep thinking alone was not a significant predictor. The obtained findings were discussed in the context of the relevant literature and suggestions were made for further research.

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The Negative Role of Social Media to Create Anxiety in University Students Amidst COVID-19

Global Mass Communication Review ◽

10.31703/gmcr.2021(vi-i).19 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol VI (I) ◽

pp. 254-263

Author(s):

Humaira Irfan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

University Students ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Public University ◽

The Social ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Negative Role ◽

English Students

The purpose of the study is to explore the negative role of social media on university students mental health amidst digitalized COVID-19 setting that throbs excruciating pain, fear, anxiety, stress and depression. The quantitative and qualitative data were collected from the Department of English students of a public university in Punjab, Pakistan. The findings reveal that students' are engaged daily for 4 hours on social media forums for online chats, information and amusement. The social media platforms strategically create situations to express unrestrained sentiments. The use of cartoons and images reflect students' potential for creativity, criticality and social innovation.

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Peran Syukur sebagai Moderator Pengaruh Perbandingan Sosial terhadap Self-esteem pada Remaja Pengguna Media Sosial

Psikohumaniora Jurnal Penelitian Psikologi ◽

10.21580/pjpp.v3i2.2650 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 197

Author(s):

Johan Satria Putra

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Social Comparison ◽

Significant Role ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Self ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

State Scale

<p>Adolescents consistently compare themselves with others they see on social media. This habit can bring up in them a sense of envy or inferiority, which then can lead to a decrease in self-esteem. Therefore, it is necessary to have aspects that can increase their confidence and optimism, including in term of spirituality, their sense of gratitude. The purpose of this study was to see the role of gratitude as moderating variable in the influence of social comparison on the self-esteem of social media adolescent users. The research was conducted using social comparison scale of Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Scale (INCOM), gratitude scale, and self-esteem state scale, which were distributed to 200 social media adolescent users in DKI Jakarta, were involved through incidental sampling. The results of data analysis showed that there was a significant role of gratitude in influencing social comparison to change these participants’ self-esteem. The sense of gratitude served to increase these adolescents’ self-esteem, which previously decreased as a result of social comparison. This study had a number of weaknesses in the use of the instruments, especially the social comparison scale. Any similar study in the future is expected to focus more on one kind of social media.</p>

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Young university students and techno-addiction. The use of social networks in their social-educational context

Digital Education Review ◽

10.1344/der.2021.39.105-120 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105-120

Author(s):

Sandra Martínez Pérez ◽

Bárbara Fernández Robles ◽

Julio Barroso Osuna ◽

Carmen Llorente Cejudo

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Media ◽

Young People ◽

University Students ◽

Basque Country ◽

Educational Context ◽

Autonomous Communities ◽

Social Media Addiction ◽

The Social ◽

Spanish Universities

The use of Smartphones, Tablets and Social Networks has grown exponentially in recent years as a means of communicating, interacting, sharing and working collaboratively. Increasingly, young people are recognising that they are establishing a greater relationship with technologies for educational and leisure purposes, to meet new people, create new languages and even to become dependent on them. The aim of our study is to know, analyse and determine the degree of addiction of young people from twelve Spanish universities. To do this, we applied an adaptation of the "Social Media Addiction Scale-Student Form" (SMAS-SF, Sahin, 2018) which was answered by 1870 students from seven Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Asturias, Castile-Leon, Catalonia, Galicia, Murcia and the Basque Country). The results obtained show significant differences between the young people of the different Autonomous Communities; moreover, the students do not perceive themselves as people addicted to technology and social networks.

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Effect of Social Comparison on Schadenfreude: Moderating Role of Interpersonal Jealousy among Adolescents

ISSUE1 - Journal of Peace, Development & Communication ◽

10.36968/jpdc-v05-i02-28 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol volume 05 (issue 2) ◽

pp. 314-324

Author(s):

Uzma Hayat ◽

Asma Rashid ◽

Fareeha Arooj

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

University Students ◽

Social Comparison ◽

Positive Correlation ◽

The Social ◽

Moderating Role

The study investigates the predictors of schadenfreude by studying the moderating role of interpersonal jea lousy. Firstly, the study intended to investigate the predictors of schadenfreude among adolescents university students. Secondly the study examined the moderating role of interpersonal jealousy between interpersonal jealousy and social comparison. In this regard, Social comparison leads towards schadenfreude and interpersonal jealousy were moderate their relationship at adolescent’s age. Participants comprised of 300 adolescent’s. Data was collected by administering schadenfreude Questionnaire, Batool, 2013. Interpersonal jealousy Questionnaire and social comparison Questionnaire. SPSS-20 has been used for data analysis. The study has been administered. Social comparison had positive correlation with Schadenfreude. Interpersonal jealousy had Positive correlation with Schadenfreude. Thus the Social comparison and interpersonal jealousy are positive analysts of schadenfreude.

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Adolescent Attachment to Parents and Peers and the Use of Instagram: The Mediation Role of Psychopathological Risk

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18083965 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (8) ◽

pp. 3965

Author(s):

Giulia Ballarotto ◽

Barbara Volpi ◽

Renata Tambelli

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Self Report ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Social Media Addiction ◽

The Social ◽

Adolescent Attachment ◽

Media Platform ◽

Psychological Difficulties ◽

The Relationship

Several studies have shown an association between adolescents’ attachment relationships and social media use. Instagram is the social media platform most used by teenagers and recent studies have shown an association between Instagram use and increased psychopathological risk. The present study aims to verify whether psychopathological risk mediates the relationship between an adolescent’s attachment to their parents and peers and their Instagram addiction. N = 372 adolescents are assessed through self-report questionnaires evaluating Instagram addiction, the adolescents’ attachments to parents and peers, and their psychopathological risk. The Bergen Instagram Addiction Scale (BIAS) is developed by adapting the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale. Results show the validity and reliability of the BIAS, confirming a one-factor structure. Findings show that a worse attachment to parents and peers is associated with adolescents’ psychopathological risk, which is associated with Instagram addiction. This finding has important clinical implications. Being able to intervene in adolescents’ relationships with parents and peers and the ways in which adolescents feel in relation to others could allow for a reduction in adolescents’ psychological difficulties, involving reduced Instagram use as a vehicle for the expression of their psychopathological symptoms.

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Social Media Addiction, Culture Code and Mediation Effect of Mindfulness: A Structural Equation Modelling Access

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1205.0782s319 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S3) ◽

pp. 1097-1102

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Social Media Addiction ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

Toxic Culture ◽

Set Up ◽

Culture Code

This study has been initiated with a view to understand the social media addiction and its influence on culture codes a mediation effect of mindfulness. The social media addiction would be a very common problem in the social and the organizational set up. The employees are getting distracted easily because of social media addiction. The organisations are taking much action to rectify this problem but end up with the talent lose because the employees are ready to quit the job when they are not allowed to use social media in the organisation. It has been an inevitable problem for the organisations so many techniques have been initiated in order to solve this problem. Many studies are concentrating on mindfulness which is a tool to remove the distractions and to be a focused employee in the organisation. The social media addiction many a times create a toxic culture among the employees. It needs a high attention to be cured. The employee relationship are highly under stake when they are social media addict. This study would attempt to understand the empirical evidence on this relationship by examining the association among addiction in social media and its effect on culture code and mediating role of mindfulness. This study also concentrates on the moderating role of gender on the proposed model.

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Predictive Role of Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Control on Social Media Addiction in University Students

International Education Studies ◽

10.5539/ies.v14n4p1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Mehmet Enes Sağar

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

University Students ◽

Cognitive Flexibility ◽

Research Group ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Self Control ◽

Relational Model ◽

Control Variables ◽

Social Media Addiction

The aim of this study is to examine how cognitive flexibility and self-control variables predict the social media addiction levels of university students. Relational model-based screening conducted in the 2020-2021 academic year. The research group studying this study in different universities in Turkey, 230 (47%) were male and 259 (53%) were female, the total of 489 university students. The average age of the research group is 20.21. Social Media Addiction Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, Self-Control Scale and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools in the study. The data obtained from the research were analyzed by using the stepwise regression analysis method from multiple linear regression analysis. As a result of the research; it was revealed that cognitive flexibility and self-control variables significantly predicted social media addiction.

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The Gender Differences in the Relationships Between Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction with Social Media Addiction in University Students

Asian Social Science ◽

10.5539/ass.v17n11p48 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (11) ◽

pp. 48

Author(s):

Yap Jing Xuan ◽

Muhammad Asyraf Che Amat

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Social Media ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

University Students ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Elevated Risk ◽

Total Variance ◽

Social Media Addiction ◽

The Social ◽

Educational Studies

Recent evidence indicates an elevated risk of social media addiction in university students. This research was designed to enhance the understanding of social media addiction among university students by investigating the relationships between self-esteem, life satisfaction, and social media addiction, with the possibility of gender differences in the relationships. 288 university students (103 males, 185 females) from the Faculty of Educational Studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) done the Social Media Addiction, Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSES), and Life Satisfaction Scales. Results showed that self-esteem and life satisfaction accounted for 64% of the total variance in social media addiction. Life satisfaction was a significant factor in increasing the possibility of social media addiction. On the contrary, there were no significant differences in life satisfaction and self-esteem, the latter exhibited no association with social media addiction. Furthermore, males were much more addicted to social media than females. An understanding on gender differences may be helpful for clinicians to expand suitable therapy by taking into account these findings, meanwhile, the statistically significant differences between the variables may contribute to predict student addiction levels in social media. The results of this study are obtained from Malaysian university students and possible generalisation to other populations should be verified by further studies.

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The Social Media Addiction Among Turkish University Students

Journal of Education and Training Studies ◽

10.11114/jets.v6i12.3452 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

pp. 13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mehmet Altın ◽

Ali Osman Kıvrak

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

University Students ◽

Personal Information ◽

Educational Background ◽

Male Students ◽

Social Media Addiction ◽

The Social ◽

The Hours ◽

Turkish University Students ◽

The Media

The objective of this study is to examine the place and importance of social media in the lives of university students according to several demographic variables. 323 Turkish students in total, 186 of whom were males and 137 of whom were females, studying in different departments at Selçuk University, participated in the study. A personal information form was used to obtain the socio-demographical information of the students, while “Social Media Addiction Scale” (SMAS), developed by Tutgun Ünal (2015), was implemented to determine the media addiction levels. Although no differences were observed concerning the age factor among the students; statistically significant differences were found among the averages of social media addiction with regards to sex, income, educational background of the parents, the means to access the internet, the number of years of access and the number of hours of access (p<0.05; p<0.01). Statistically significant variances were also found in all the dimensions of social media addiction concerning the time and the hours the students spend on social media (p<0.05; p<0.01). Based on the findings of this study, it can be said that the social media addiction levels of the male students are higher compared to that of the female students; this situation is caused by the social roles imposed on men and women depending on social status and responsibilities and the cultural structure; and as the number of days and hours spent on social media increase, so does the addiction to social media.

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