Facebook addiction and loneliness in the post-graduate students of a university in southern India

Abstract

With the rapid growth of popularity and user-base of Facebook, a significant portion of the individuals are susceptible to develop addictive behaviors related to Facebook use. Loneliness is a factor which influences addiction to Facebook.

Smartphone Addiction among Students of Medical University in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…In another study done in the same campus on postgraduate students by Shettar et al; showed that 26 % of students had facebook addiction and also showed that there is a positive correlation between severity of Facebook addiction and extent of experience of loneliness. [17] Based on the cutoff values for SAS-SV given by Kwon et al; for males more than 31 and females more than 33, smartphone addiction was present in 36% of the students. This is similar to the results of Indian meta-analysis on assessment of smartphone addiction by Davey et al; which showed 39-44%(6).…”

Prevalence and correlates of loneliness in India: A systematic review

“…After retrieving and evaluating the full texts, 28 articles did not meet our criteria. At the end of the screening process, 13 articles met all the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were recruited in this systematic review (Anil et al, 2016;Bhogle, 1991;Grover et al, 2019Grover et al, , 2018Malhotra et al, 2019;Mishra et al, 2013;Nayyar and Singh, 2011;Ninan and Gopinath, 2013;Samanta et al, 2012;Shettar et al, 2017;Singh and Mishra, 2009;Susheela et al, 2018;Upmanyu et al, 1994).…”

“…Most (n = 4) studies were conducted in Karnataka (Anil et al, 2016;Ninan and Gopinath, 2013;Shettar et al, 2017;Susheela et al, 2018), followed by Punjab (n = 3) Nayyar and Singh, 2011;Upmanyu et al, 1994), Andhra Pradesh (n = 2) (Bhogle, 1991;Mishra et al, 2013), Delhi (n = 1) (Singh and Mishra, 2009), Haryana (n = 1) (Malhotra et al, 2019), and West Bengal (n = 1) (Samanta et al, 2012). A study by Grover et al included participants from multiple states of India (Grover et al, 2018).…”

“…A study by Grover et al included participants from multiple states of India (Grover et al, 2018). In most of the studies (n = 10), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale was used to evaluate loneliness among the participants (Anil et al, 2016;Bhogle, 1991;Grover et al, 2019Grover et al, , 2018Mishra et al, 2013;Nayyar and Singh, 2011;Shettar et al, 2017;Singh and Mishra, 2009;Susheela et al, 2018;Upmanyu et al, 1994). Other scales used for assessing loneliness, associated sociodemographic, and clinical conditions included differential loneliness scale (Upmanyu et al, 1994), Eysenck personality profiler (Singh and Mishra, 2009), loneliness and social dissatisfaction questionnaire (Ninan and Gopinath, 2013),…”

“…Columbia suicide severity scale (Grover et al, 2018), patient health questionnaire (Grover et al, 2018), social connectedness scale (Grover et al, 2018), generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire (Grover et al, 2018), vulnerability to abuse screening scale , Bergan Facebook addiction scale (Shettar et al, 2017), Beck depression inventory (Singh and Mishra, 2009), internal-external scale (Nayyar and Singh, 2011), Institute for Personality and Ability Testing (IPAT) self-analysis anxiety scale (Nayyar and Singh, 2011), global school student health survey (Samanta et al, 2012), children attribution style questionnaire (Ninan and Gopinath, 2013), geriatric depression scale (Grover et al, , 2018, activities of daily living scale (Susheela et al, 2018), and self-reported questionnaire (Malhotra et al, 2019;Mishra et al, 2013).…”