Internet Addiction and Mental Health among College Students in Malawi

Manda, Tiwonge Davis; Jamu, Edister; Mwakilama, Elias; Maliwichi, Limbika

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13593-5_16

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“…A variation of missing responses in the range of one to seven (see Tables S1-S8 in supplementary file) is observed in the dataset, however. Hence, only 977 responses in the dataset which have complete records of socio-demographic characteristics (see Table S1 in the supplement), were used by the main study (Manda et al, 2019) for analysis. Nonetheless, the 984 sample size was arrived at following the multistage sampling technique.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These are primary data, processed data, data collection tool and figures in the manuscript (Manda et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The data were collected from randomly sampled university (undergraduate and postgraduate) students pursuing either science or humanities, and social science disciplines in Malawi using a self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ). However, we do not presume that the previous study (Manda et al, 2019) was exhaustive with use of the data; hence the present study to share the data. Recognizing the need for sharing of data in accordance with the FAIR data policies (Carolan, 2016;Wang & Strong, 1996;Wilkinson et al, 2016), this article openly describes and shares the data with the public and other researchers who will find it useful.…”

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“…However, in Malawi, such type of information was lacking. To address this gap, we instituted a study (Manda et al, 2019) to investigate the relationship between internet addiction and mental health among college students in Malawi based on the primarily collected data. The data were collected from randomly sampled university (undergraduate and postgraduate) students pursuing either science or humanities, and social science disciplines in Malawi using a self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ).…”

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Data which were collected using Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) tools from 984 randomly sampled tertiary education students in Malawi is described in this paper. The questionnaires were designed on Google forms, but both online and printed forms were employed to enhance response rate. Stored in Mendeley data repository, the data set includes basic demographic information about study participants, frequency of internet and social media use, and transformed variables linked to cases of common mental disorder. Although the data was primarily collected to assess the link between internet addiction and mental health among college students in Malawi, it is a potential source for the several psychometric studies. Moreover, the presented SRQ-20 data should also be useful for measuring anxiety and studying psychiatric symptoms and personality type among the college students. The study design, materials and methods used when collecting this data may also be replicated in other related psychological research studies in the educational field.

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Section: Sampling Sample and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are primary data, processed data, data collection tool and figures in the manuscript (Manda et al, 2019).…”

Section: Data Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%