Impact of Facebook Addiction Disorder (Fad) on Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Adolescents

Abstract

With the present era being technology driven, social media has become an indispensable part of many people irrespective of their age. Among different age groups, the maximum users are adolescents and among different social networking sites (SNS), Facebook shares the major part of usage by them. Many adolescents are tending towards excessive usage of Facebook leading to its addiction. Does this addiction have negative influence on adolescents or it actually helps them to keep up with their counterparts and be socially connected to them for their betterment? This question is unanswered specifically when it concerns the impact that it has on the study habits and academic achievement of adolescents. The hypotheses were tested in order to explore the impact of six dimensions (mood modification, deficient self-regulations, salience, loss of control, withdrawal, and relapse) of Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) using Bergens' Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS), developed by Andreassen (2012). The results are based on the survey conducted on 200 adolescents studying in different schools of India. The findings indicate that there is a significant negative impact of Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) on study habits and academic achievement of adolescents. The major implication derived is that the higher the addiction to Facebook the study habit become poor and academic achievement decreases resulting in lower grades.

Facebook addiction and affected academic performance among Ethiopian university students: A cross-sectional study

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“…This finding is supported by a prior study [ 31 ], in which up to 20% of Facebook-addicted students reported anxiety and depressive symptoms. Similarly, the study conducted among Pakistani students [ 11 ] revealed a strong positive relationship between Facebook addiction and the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Furthermore, we identified a number of previous studies [ 32 , 39 – 42 ] that reported the negative correlation of Facebook addiction with anxiety and depressive symptoms in university students.…”

“…The previous study revealed that too much use of Facebook was related to a lower grade point average (GPA) and disturbances in daily routine activities [ 9 ]. It has been reported that students who are more addicted to Facebook have poor study habits and lower academic achievements [ 11 ]. Similarly, those adolescents who were addicted to Facebook demonstrated poor study habits, which resulted in deprived academic performances [ 12 ].…”

“…Similarly, those adolescents who were addicted to Facebook demonstrated poor study habits, which resulted in deprived academic performances [ 12 ]. Another study has shown that students with high Facebook addiction had disturbed social interactions and relationships that could affect their future careers [ 11 ].…”

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