The gender differences in the relationships between self-esteem and life satisfaction with social media addiction among university students

Recent evidence indicates an elevated risk of social media addiction in university students. This research was designed to enhance the understanding of social media addiction among university students by investigating the relationships between self-esteem, life satisfaction, and social media addi...

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Main Authors: Yap, Jing Xuan, Che Amat, Muhammad Asyraf
Format: Article
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2021
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description Recent evidence indicates an elevated risk of social media addiction in university students. This research was designed to enhance the understanding of social media addiction among university students by investigating the relationships between self-esteem, life satisfaction, and social media addiction, with the possibility of gender differences in the relationships. 288 university students (103 males, 185 females) from the Faculty of Educational Studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) done the Social Media Addiction, Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSES), and Life Satisfaction Scales. Results showed that self-esteem and life satisfaction accounted for 64% of the total variance in social media addiction. Life satisfaction was a significant factor in increasing the possibility of social media addiction. On the contrary, there were no significant differences in life satisfaction and self-esteem, the latter exhibited no association with social media addiction. Furthermore, males were much more addicted to social media than females. An understanding on gender differences may be helpful for clinicians to expand suitable therapy by taking into account these findings, meanwhile, the statistically significant differences between the variables may contribute to predict student addiction levels in social media. The results of this study are obtained from Malaysian university students and possible generalisation to other populations should be verified by further studies.
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spelling upm.eprints-954452023-02-22T07:12:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95445/ The gender differences in the relationships between self-esteem and life satisfaction with social media addiction among university students Yap, Jing Xuan Che Amat, Muhammad Asyraf Recent evidence indicates an elevated risk of social media addiction in university students. This research was designed to enhance the understanding of social media addiction among university students by investigating the relationships between self-esteem, life satisfaction, and social media addiction, with the possibility of gender differences in the relationships. 288 university students (103 males, 185 females) from the Faculty of Educational Studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) done the Social Media Addiction, Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSES), and Life Satisfaction Scales. Results showed that self-esteem and life satisfaction accounted for 64% of the total variance in social media addiction. Life satisfaction was a significant factor in increasing the possibility of social media addiction. On the contrary, there were no significant differences in life satisfaction and self-esteem, the latter exhibited no association with social media addiction. Furthermore, males were much more addicted to social media than females. An understanding on gender differences may be helpful for clinicians to expand suitable therapy by taking into account these findings, meanwhile, the statistically significant differences between the variables may contribute to predict student addiction levels in social media. The results of this study are obtained from Malaysian university students and possible generalisation to other populations should be verified by further studies. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2021 Article PeerReviewed Yap, Jing Xuan and Che Amat, Muhammad Asyraf (2021) The gender differences in the relationships between self-esteem and life satisfaction with social media addiction among university students. Asian Social Science, 17 (11). 48 - 56. ISSN 1911-2017; ESSN: 1911-2025 https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/0/46113 10.5539/ass.v17n11p48
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