Social-Media Addiction among Students at Public University

Abstract

Improvement in data-transfer speed and constant, continuous innovation in software and hardware, and humans’ communication and networking through social-media networking have become much easier and breezier. Complex and data heavy information, such as high-definition videos, can be shared with million other users all over the planet at the ease of fingertips in just 1/1000th second. For the above reasons, social media have become a handy, crucial, and effective tool for users to propagate and seek useful and vital information. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to identify a relationship between independent variables and dependent variable. The factors that have been analysed include intrinsic reasons, information-seeking and sharing, and social-media addiction. The study was conducted by using a quantitative method by distributing questionnaires to the degree students of a public university in the east coast of Malaysia. The respondents were from a group of students from the total population of 2,007 and the sample size was 327 students. The data from the questionnaires have been analysed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Version 23. Reliability analysis, frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis are used in the research. The results prove that there are moderate and weak relationships among the variables.

The Relationship between Digital Communication, Digital Literacy, and Digital Safety on Online Behaviour

“…Rosario et al (2020) found that digital literacy is associated with respondents' online information seeking behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to the common perception that users' interactivity heavily relies on social media for seeking information on a study conducted by Salleh (2020) found that respondents rarely use social media as their primary source of information. Most of the respondents did not depend on social media to find information.…”

Social Networks Consumption and Addiction in College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Educational Approach to Responsible Use

“…The theoretical review carried out questions the magnitude of the influence that new information and communication technologies may be having on young university students and how it affects their behavior, social habits, forms of relationship, daily tasks, and even in the psychological field, such as stress, anxiety, self-control, confidence, self-concept, etc. Numerous studies have warned of the consequences of Internet addiction in general and of social networks in particular on university students [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88], affecting them on a personal and social level as well as on academic performance. It has even been determined that it is a determining factor that affects the quality of sleep [89][90][91][92][93], which is fundamental for health and especially for the adequate development of academic activities.…”

Adjustment Estimation and Validation of the Addiction to Social Networks Scale Using the SEM Methodology

“…Such as, for example, entertainment, including a wide range of web technologies as blogs, wikis, online social networks, and virtual networks [15]. In this idea, other recent studies have reported evidence of the level of SN addiction in university students [14], [18], [19], [20], [16]. These arguments give us support to think that the student populations are where this phenomenon occurs most frequently.…”

“…Currently, SN play an elementary role in the environment of young people, technological progress favors the use of this tool in the area of communication, contributing to the exploration of information, sharing and expressing opinions [13], [14], [15], [16]. Social networks are considered a "global consumption phenomenon" [14].…”