Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study
Abstract Background Selfie addiction has become one of the most noticed phenomena in our modern life that is affecting people of all ages. Many researchers reported that students’ addictive selfie-taking behavior resulted in the loss of function and the development of psychological problems. In this...
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| author | Ahmed Reda El Adgham Ibtihal M. A. Ibrahim Ibrahem Hamdey Rashed Elkalla Mohamed A. El Hadidy |
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| description | Abstract Background Selfie addiction has become one of the most noticed phenomena in our modern life that is affecting people of all ages. Many researchers reported that students’ addictive selfie-taking behavior resulted in the loss of function and the development of psychological problems. In this study, we mainly targeted to calculate the prevalence of addiction of selfie at Mansoura Faculty of Medicine students and find its relationship with OCD, personality traits or disorders, and self-esteem. Methodology The study is a cross-sectional study which recruited 476 medical students through all grades. All of them are assigned to the questionnaires in the study, which included sociodemographic data, selfie addiction, Yale-Brown, Rosenberg, SCID II, and NEO scales. SCID-I scale was used to exclude students with psychotic disorder. Results Four-hundred seventy-six students were included in our study. Two-hundred seventy-eight (58.4%) of them showed selfie addictive behavior; most of them showed the mild degree (208 students of them) according to the used selfie scale. NPD showed strong relation with statistically significant result with selfie addiction (P-value = 0.034). Also, high self-esteem and OCD were numerically associated with selfie addiction despite lack of statistically significance (P-value = 0.366, 0.148, respectively). Conclusions The prevalence of selfie addiction was 58.4% at Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University students. There was a direct proportional relationship between selfie-taking behavior with high self-esteem, OCD, and narcissistic personality disorder. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd27faafb6624f1195f1327d8f08df9c2023-12-10T12:05:44ZengSpringerOpenMiddle East Current Psychiatry2090-54162023-12-013011910.1186/s43045-023-00370-wAssessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional studyAhmed Reda El Adgham0Ibtihal M. A. Ibrahim1Ibrahem Hamdey Rashed Elkalla2Mohamed A. El Hadidy3Psychiatry, New Damietta Mental HospitalDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura UniversityDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura UniversityDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura UniversityAbstract Background Selfie addiction has become one of the most noticed phenomena in our modern life that is affecting people of all ages. Many researchers reported that students’ addictive selfie-taking behavior resulted in the loss of function and the development of psychological problems. In this study, we mainly targeted to calculate the prevalence of addiction of selfie at Mansoura Faculty of Medicine students and find its relationship with OCD, personality traits or disorders, and self-esteem. Methodology The study is a cross-sectional study which recruited 476 medical students through all grades. All of them are assigned to the questionnaires in the study, which included sociodemographic data, selfie addiction, Yale-Brown, Rosenberg, SCID II, and NEO scales. SCID-I scale was used to exclude students with psychotic disorder. Results Four-hundred seventy-six students were included in our study. Two-hundred seventy-eight (58.4%) of them showed selfie addictive behavior; most of them showed the mild degree (208 students of them) according to the used selfie scale. NPD showed strong relation with statistically significant result with selfie addiction (P-value = 0.034). Also, high self-esteem and OCD were numerically associated with selfie addiction despite lack of statistically significance (P-value = 0.366, 0.148, respectively). Conclusions The prevalence of selfie addiction was 58.4% at Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University students. There was a direct proportional relationship between selfie-taking behavior with high self-esteem, OCD, and narcissistic personality disorder.https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-023-00370-wSelfie addictionBehavioral addictionMedical studentsSelf-esteemObsessive–compulsive disorderNarcissistic personality disorder |
| spellingShingle | Ahmed Reda El Adgham Ibtihal M. A. Ibrahim Ibrahem Hamdey Rashed Elkalla Mohamed A. El Hadidy Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study Middle East Current Psychiatry Selfie addiction Behavioral addiction Medical students Self-esteem Obsessive–compulsive disorder Narcissistic personality disorder |
| title | Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in Mansoura Medical School students: a cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | assessing the prevalence and psychological correlates of selfie addiction in mansoura medical school students a cross sectional study |
| topic | Selfie addiction Behavioral addiction Medical students Self-esteem Obsessive–compulsive disorder Narcissistic personality disorder |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-023-00370-w |
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