The relationship between the items of the social media disorder scale and perceived social media addiction
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, vol.41, no.10, pp.7200-7207, 2022 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 41 Issue: 10
- Publication Date: 2022
- Doi Number: 10.1007/s12144-020-01314-x
- Journal Name: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
- Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, BIOSIS, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Psycinfo
- Page Numbers: pp.7200-7207
- Keywords: Perceived social media addiction, Social media disorder scale, Stepwise regression, Persistence, Withdrawal, PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE
- Ankara University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Research has focused on identifying addiction to social media, as it has become a major concern. Of the college students included in the current study, about 50% of them perceived themselves as addicted to social media between 75%-100% and about 20% of them perceived themselves as addicted to social media 100%. Moreover, the current study was the first to investigate if each item of a nine-item Social Media Disorder scale (preoccupation, tolerance, withdrawal, persistence, escape, problems, deception, displacement, and conflict) predicted perceived social media addiction. A stepwise regression analysis was utilized with a significance level of 0.001 to predict the perceived social media addiction as a function of the nine-item Social Media Disorder scale, followed by a hierarchical regression for confirmation. Among the nine-items of the Social Media Disorder Scale, withdrawal and persistence significantly contributed to the model. Specifically, withdrawal predicted 10.2% of perceived social media addiction, while persistence predicted 5.9% of perceived social media addiction.