Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing.
<h4>Background</h4>Social media addiction, a recently emerged term in medical science, has attracted the attention of researchers because of its significant physical and psychological effects on its users. The issue has attracted more attention during the COVID era because negative emoti...
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| author | Dewan Muhammad Nur-A Yazdani Tanvir Abir Yang Qing Jamee Ahmad Abdullah Al Mamun Noor Raihani Zainol Kaniz Kakon Kingsley Emwinyore Agho Shasha Wang |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Social media addiction, a recently emerged term in medical science, has attracted the attention of researchers because of its significant physical and psychological effects on its users. The issue has attracted more attention during the COVID era because negative emotions (e.g., anxiety and fear) generated from the COVID pandemic may have increased social media addiction. Therefore, the present study investigates the role of negative emotions and social media addiction (SMA) on health problems during and after the COVID lockdown.<h4>Methods</h4>A survey was conducted with 2926 participants aged between 25 and 45 years from all eight divisions of Bangladesh. The data collection period was between 2nd September- 13th October, 2020. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted for data analysis by controlling the respondents' working time, leisure time, gender, education, and age.<h4>Results</h4>Our study showed that social media addiction and time spent on social media impact health. Interestingly, while anxiety about COVID increased social media addition, fear about COIVD reduced social media addition. Among all considered factors, long working hours contributed most to people's health issues, and its impact on social media addiction and hours was much higher than negative emotions. Furthermore, females were less addicted to social media and faced less health challenges than males.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The impacts of negative emotions generated by the COVID disaster on social media addiction and health issues should be reconsidered. Government and employers control people's working time, and stress should be a priority to solve people's social media addiction-related issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f96982868d974146b2705614783c344c2022-12-22T02:40:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-011710e027489810.1371/journal.pone.0274898Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing.Dewan Muhammad Nur-A YazdaniTanvir AbirYang QingJamee AhmadAbdullah Al MamunNoor Raihani ZainolKaniz KakonKingsley Emwinyore AghoShasha Wang<h4>Background</h4>Social media addiction, a recently emerged term in medical science, has attracted the attention of researchers because of its significant physical and psychological effects on its users. The issue has attracted more attention during the COVID era because negative emotions (e.g., anxiety and fear) generated from the COVID pandemic may have increased social media addiction. Therefore, the present study investigates the role of negative emotions and social media addiction (SMA) on health problems during and after the COVID lockdown.<h4>Methods</h4>A survey was conducted with 2926 participants aged between 25 and 45 years from all eight divisions of Bangladesh. The data collection period was between 2nd September- 13th October, 2020. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted for data analysis by controlling the respondents' working time, leisure time, gender, education, and age.<h4>Results</h4>Our study showed that social media addiction and time spent on social media impact health. Interestingly, while anxiety about COVID increased social media addition, fear about COIVD reduced social media addition. Among all considered factors, long working hours contributed most to people's health issues, and its impact on social media addiction and hours was much higher than negative emotions. Furthermore, females were less addicted to social media and faced less health challenges than males.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The impacts of negative emotions generated by the COVID disaster on social media addiction and health issues should be reconsidered. Government and employers control people's working time, and stress should be a priority to solve people's social media addiction-related issues.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274898 |
| spellingShingle | Dewan Muhammad Nur-A Yazdani Tanvir Abir Yang Qing Jamee Ahmad Abdullah Al Mamun Noor Raihani Zainol Kaniz Kakon Kingsley Emwinyore Agho Shasha Wang Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. PLoS ONE |
| title | Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. |
| title_full | Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. |
| title_fullStr | Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. |
| title_short | Social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period-The moderating role of post-COVID timing. |
| title_sort | social media addiction and emotions during the disaster recovery period the moderating role of post covid timing |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274898 |
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