Is Facebook Addiction Leading Adolescents to Depression? Evidence from Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Abstract

s191times more likely to get depressed (OR= 5.11,), controlling for other characteristics constant. Students who have Facebook friends more than 1000 are three times more likely to have depression (OR= 3.02, 95% CI= 1.01-9.30). ConClusions: The study found significant association between Facebook addiction and depression among adolescent students. This study suggests that the stake holders and policy makers should investigate this association thoroughly and take appropriate measures to restore adolescent mental health by reducing Facebook addiction and depression among adolescents.

The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale: its psychometric properties and invariance among women with eating disorders

“…Same as in other addictive disorders, social media addiction results in numerous negative consequences, including interpersonal conflicts and relationship problems, shrinkage in real-life social networks, deterioration of academic performance, reduction in general well-being [ 29 , 30 ], and increased prevalence of depression (OR 5.11, 95% CI 1.42–18.34) in analysis adjusted for other characteristics [ 31 ]. An interesting investigation of a wide range of desires among Facebook and Twitter users in Germany revealed that desires for social media use are more dominant than desires for rest and sleeping, which were most prominent among the participants.…”

Internet addiction among young Bangladeshi adults: critical commentary on Hassan et al. (2020)

“…One of the major omissions in the paper is that in their Introduction, not a single previous Bangladeshi study was discussed even though there are many (e.g., [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] -see Table 1 for details), and only one was mentioned in the Discussion [10]. Hasan also claimed that: "Most of the studies conducted previously evaluated the prevalence of internet addiction and its predictors in adolescent samples, within the age range of 12 to 18 years" (p. 2).…”