Impact of social media on the academic performance of undergraduate medical students

Bhandarkar, Ajay M; Pandey, Arvind Kumar; Nayak, Ramadas; Pujary, Kailesh; Kumar, Ashwini

doi:10.1016/j.mjafi.2020.10.021

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“…Based on the findings, answering questions on WhatsApp during class is strongly associated with app learning assistance. Nevertheless, more app utilization in class is inversely correlated with the grade point average, which is similar to the study conducted on medicine students in [55]. Such a survey indicated that there is a negative impact on the employment of social media on academic performance.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…The survey concluded that while students' grade point average has no relationship with the use of WhatsApp, the app can sometimes assist students in their learning and performance. Training for the constructive usage of WhatsApp should be inculcated in the curriculum, which is supported by the investigation carried out in [55]. Additionally, there is a significant relation between students' utilization of WhatsApp during academic activity and the use of WhatsApp to communicate with lecturers.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Modern Multivariate Statistical Methods for Evaluating the Impact of WhatsApp on Academic Performance: Methodology and Case Study in India

Sharma¹,

Singh²,

Leiva

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Applied Sciences

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Despite the increasing amount of research on social media, there are few studies on the use of WhatsApp to assess academic performance. Surprisingly, students use social media during lectures, causing a problem. According to the literature, students utilize WhatsApp throughout academic activities where it is prohibited. Researchers and policymakers must pay attention to this problem to understand its impact on academic achievement. In this paper, by using multivariate statistical methods, we investigate the impact of WhatsApp use on academic performance. We construct a questionnaire for this investigation and apply it to a case study based on a sample of 258 students of management from India. We determine the prevalence of WhatsApp employment among these students and note that many of them utilize the app for academic purposes. We found a positive association between time spent on WhatsApp and students’ grade point average (GPA) based on factor, principal component, correlation, and chi-square analyses. Answering questions on the app in class is related to the program’s ability to help students learn. More use of the app in class leads to a lower GPA. However, sometimes, using the app might help students learn and perform better. We identify that many students disseminate materials through the app for academic purposes, contributing to their academic performance. Furthermore, this app is utilized for communicating with their teachers. Computations were carried out with the R and SPSS software.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Modern Multivariate Statistical Methods for Evaluating the Impact of WhatsApp on Academic Performance: Methodology and Case Study in India

Sharma¹,

Singh²,

Leiva

et al. 2022

Applied Sciences

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“…Academically performance behavior is core issue of current world (Mahimuang, 2005;Paloș et al, 2019). Additionally, academicians have considered academic performance as a direct link to behavior, psychology and social spectacle (Chen 2005;Bhandarkar et al, 2021). Socialization and academics are regarded as same for school adjustment (Rienties et al, 2012;Coninck et al, 2021), future outcomes (Bhandarkar et al, 2021), future jobs performance (Sonny & Sherman, 1989;Abbasi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Student Academic Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, academicians have considered academic performance as a direct link to behavior, psychology and social spectacle (Chen 2005;Bhandarkar et al, 2021). Socialization and academics are regarded as same for school adjustment (Rienties et al, 2012;Coninck et al, 2021), future outcomes (Bhandarkar et al, 2021), future jobs performance (Sonny & Sherman, 1989;Abbasi et al, 2021). Positive schooling results in shape of the best academic performance (Marks, 2010), rational performance or life adjustment (Crede, et al, 2015), and overall living standard (Hascher & Hagenauer, 2020;Nordlander & Stensöta, 2014).…”

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Relationship of Social Media Addiction With Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Student Engagement

Alvi

Kayani

Lakhan³

2022

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The current research addresses the issue of student academic performance while identifying its potential predictors. social media addiction is predicting variable and student performance is dependent variable whereas student engagement is mediating variable. Current research proposes following research hypotheses; firstly to examine the direct impact of Social Media addiction on the student academic performance and student engagement while checking the direct impact of social media addiction on the student engagement respectively. Secondly, current research examines mediating effect of student engagement in relation between social media addiction and student academic performance. Students of Govt. universities are the target population. 250 university students were selected with the help of the snowball sampling technique. Results reveal that all three hypotheses are accepted over significant outcomes of statistical procedures. In future research, other potential predictors of student academic performance like use of Facebook, use of Twitter may include in addition to target students of private universities along with students of Govt. universities and compare the results.

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“…Some scholars also applied this instrument to conduct their study in adolescent samples, the results demonstrated that males were more likely to be addicted in social media (Altin and Kivrak, 2018 ; Azizi et al, 2019 ; Shibli and Akhtar, 2020 ; Luo et al, 2021 ; Gao and Eissenstat, 2022 ). In these scholars' opinion, men may experience more negative effects and be more likely to have a poor academic performance, which will lead men to use social media for longer time as opposed to their female counterparts and contribute to their vulnerability of social media addiction (Shen, 2019 ; Bhandarkar et al, 2021 ; Gao and Eissenstat, 2022 ). Moreover, some studies also contended that there was no significant association between gender and the severity of social media addiction (Kirik et al, 2015 ; Ahmed et al, 2021 ; Cheng, 2021 ; Mahmood et al, 2022 ).…”

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Measurement Invariance of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale Across Genders

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Social media addiction has been a hot issue in scientific research in recent years, its antecedents and consequences have been extensively studied. Among these studies, Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) is one of the most commonly used instruments. However, little is known about whether this scale has the equivalent psychometric properties for men and women. The purpose of the current study is to examine the measurement invariance (including configural invariance, metric invariance, scalar invariance, and error variance invariance) of the BSMAS across genders. In total, 1,120 participants were recruited from 5 universities. R program was applied to conduct the single-group and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) based on the social media addiction symptom ratings. The results demonstrated that BSMAS was a valid and psychometrically robust instrument for assessing the risk of social media addiction among university students, and that the four types of measurement invariance of the BSMAS across genders were confirmed. Consequently, gender differences in the BSMAS scores are likely to reflect the genuine differences between men and women, and comparisons on the level of social media addiction of university students between gender groups can be interpreted meaningfully.

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Impact of social media on the academic performance of undergraduate medical students

Cited by 42 publications

References 20 publications

Modern Multivariate Statistical Methods for Evaluating the Impact of WhatsApp on Academic Performance: Methodology and Case Study in India

Modern Multivariate Statistical Methods for Evaluating the Impact of WhatsApp on Academic Performance: Methodology and Case Study in India

Relationship of Social Media Addiction With Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Student Engagement

Measurement Invariance of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale Across Genders

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