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Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India
BACKGROUND: Excessive use of social media is increasingly being recognized as a source of technological addiction in young people globally. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess social media addiction in medical students using a self-designed questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collecte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106423/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34083818 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_153_20 |
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author | Basu, Saurav Sharma, Ragini Sharma, Pragya Sharma, Nandini |
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description | BACKGROUND: Excessive use of social media is increasingly being recognized as a source of technological addiction in young people globally. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess social media addiction in medical students using a self-designed questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected data from undergraduate medical students (MBBS) in Delhi, India using a self-administered 20-item social media addiction questionnaire (SMAQ) to measure addiction-like behavior, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to assess sleep quality. RESULTS: We enrolled 264 (62.3%) male and 160 (37.7%) female participants of mean (standard deviation) age 19.83 (1.6) years. The Cronbach's alpha of the SMAQ was 0.879. A principal component analysis revealed a 4-component SMAQ structure based on eigenvalue cutoff (>1), loading score >0.3, and inspection of the Scree-plot that explained 54.7% of the total variance. We observed strong loadings of impaired control items on Component 1, decreased alternate pleasure items on Component 2, intense desire items on Component 3, and harmful use items on Component 4. The mean SMAQ score was significantly higher in the students reporting poor sleep quality and older students. CONCLUSION: The SMAQ has acceptable psychometric properties, with higher scores associated with sleep deprivation. A majority of students were unable to reduce their time spent on social media despite wanting to do so, signifying the presence of tolerance and impaired control. |
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spelling | pubmed-81064232021-06-02 Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India Basu, Saurav Sharma, Ragini Sharma, Pragya Sharma, Nandini Indian J Psychiatry Original Article BACKGROUND: Excessive use of social media is increasingly being recognized as a source of technological addiction in young people globally. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess social media addiction in medical students using a self-designed questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected data from undergraduate medical students (MBBS) in Delhi, India using a self-administered 20-item social media addiction questionnaire (SMAQ) to measure addiction-like behavior, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to assess sleep quality. RESULTS: We enrolled 264 (62.3%) male and 160 (37.7%) female participants of mean (standard deviation) age 19.83 (1.6) years. The Cronbach's alpha of the SMAQ was 0.879. A principal component analysis revealed a 4-component SMAQ structure based on eigenvalue cutoff (>1), loading score >0.3, and inspection of the Scree-plot that explained 54.7% of the total variance. We observed strong loadings of impaired control items on Component 1, decreased alternate pleasure items on Component 2, intense desire items on Component 3, and harmful use items on Component 4. The mean SMAQ score was significantly higher in the students reporting poor sleep quality and older students. CONCLUSION: The SMAQ has acceptable psychometric properties, with higher scores associated with sleep deprivation. A majority of students were unable to reduce their time spent on social media despite wanting to do so, signifying the presence of tolerance and impaired control. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8106423/ /pubmed/34083818 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_153_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Psychiatry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Basu, Saurav Sharma, Ragini Sharma, Pragya Sharma, Nandini Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title | Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title_full | Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title_fullStr | Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title_short | Addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in Delhi, India |
title_sort | addiction-like behavior associated with social media usage in undergraduate students of a government medical college in delhi, india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106423/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34083818 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_153_20 |
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