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The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students
OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to test the correlation between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students. METHODS: To examine the relationship between the study variables, a correlational study was conducted. The geographical repre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8529369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34674078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-021-00198-5 |
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author | Mahmid, Fayez Bdier, Dana Chou, Priscilla |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to test the correlation between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students. METHODS: To examine the relationship between the study variables, a correlational study was conducted. The geographical representation of the study sample showed that 48.1% of participants were from urban populations, 48.1% were from rural villages, and 3.8% were from internally displaced people’s camps. RESULTS: Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to test the relationship between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being. Results showed that problematic Internet use was negatively correlated to well-being (r = − .32, p < .01), and positively correlated to eating disorder behaviors (r = .39, p < .01). The regression analysis found that problematic Internet use contributes statistically and significantly towards explaining variance in eating disorder behaviors (B = .46, SE = .08, β = .32). Moreover, well-being contributed in a way that was statistically significant towards explaining variance in eating disorders behaviors (B = − .39, SE = .09, β = − .25). CONCLUSION: The results of our study support previous studies that indicated that problematic Internet use was significantly and positively correlated with eating disorder behaviors, while it was significantly and negatively correlated to well-being among Palestinian university students. Further studies testing this relationship will be crucial in developing interventions to both reduce problematic Internet use and eating disorder behaviors and increase well-being among university students. |
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spelling | pubmed-85293692021-10-21 The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students Mahmid, Fayez Bdier, Dana Chou, Priscilla Psicol Reflex Crit Research OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to test the correlation between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students. METHODS: To examine the relationship between the study variables, a correlational study was conducted. The geographical representation of the study sample showed that 48.1% of participants were from urban populations, 48.1% were from rural villages, and 3.8% were from internally displaced people’s camps. RESULTS: Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to test the relationship between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being. Results showed that problematic Internet use was negatively correlated to well-being (r = − .32, p < .01), and positively correlated to eating disorder behaviors (r = .39, p < .01). The regression analysis found that problematic Internet use contributes statistically and significantly towards explaining variance in eating disorder behaviors (B = .46, SE = .08, β = .32). Moreover, well-being contributed in a way that was statistically significant towards explaining variance in eating disorders behaviors (B = − .39, SE = .09, β = − .25). CONCLUSION: The results of our study support previous studies that indicated that problematic Internet use was significantly and positively correlated with eating disorder behaviors, while it was significantly and negatively correlated to well-being among Palestinian university students. Further studies testing this relationship will be crucial in developing interventions to both reduce problematic Internet use and eating disorder behaviors and increase well-being among university students. Springer International Publishing 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8529369/ /pubmed/34674078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-021-00198-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Mahmid, Fayez Bdier, Dana Chou, Priscilla The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title | The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title_full | The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title_fullStr | The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title_full_unstemmed | The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title_short | The association between problematic Internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among Palestinian university students |
title_sort | association between problematic internet use, eating disorder behaviors, and well-being among palestinian university students |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8529369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34674078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-021-00198-5 |
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