A new method to measure and decrease the online social networking addiction

Autor:	Mahsa Esmaeili Rad, Farid Ahmadi
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Adult Male 050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Universities media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Distraction Outcome Assessment Health Care medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Reality Therapy Android (operating system) Students Reality therapy media_common Sleep quality Addiction 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Life satisfaction General Medicine Mobile Applications 030227 psychiatry Behavior Addictive Psychiatry and Mental health Online Social Networking Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology
Zdroj:	Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. 10(4)
ISSN:	1758-5872
Popis:	Introduction The online social networking addiction is a type of technology addiction that can lead to distraction, depression, anxiety, and lower academic performance. In this research, an android mobile application was designed based on the previous literature as well as authors' previous works to measure and decrease social networking addiction level. Methods This research is a randomized controlled trial. Participants were the students in Urmia University of Technology. The mobile application was designed and sent to 100 (35 males and 65 females) students randomly as an intervention group and was sent to 100 (38 males and 62 females) students randomly as a control group. In order to evaluate the efficacy of treatment, data were collected before and after 2-week treatment. Results The results indicated that the designed mobile application can measure the online social networking addiction level with online social networking addiction scale, it can also decrease the online social networking addiction, depression, anxiety level, and the time spent on online social networks, and it can improve the sleep quality and life satisfaction level. Discussion Therefore, the designed mobile application can be used as an appropriate instrument to measure and decrease the online social networking addiction level of college students.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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