The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator
There was an increase of 2 million social media users since 2020, and a long period of social media usage led to psychological consequences of depression and low psychological well-being. Compulsive social media use and social media fatigue were reported as factors that lead to poor psychological we...
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| author | Foong, Chee Ee Lau, Yau Chee Sarvinna, Vasuthevan |
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| description | There was an increase of 2 million social media users since 2020, and a long period of social media usage led to psychological consequences of depression and low psychological well-being. Compulsive social media use and social media fatigue were reported as factors that lead to poor psychological well-being. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the associations of compulsive social media use, social media fatigue and psychological well-being, and social media fatigue as the mediator in the association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being. The questionnaires were distributed to 119 Malaysian young adults (M = 22.67, SD = 2.33), respectively 67.2% females and 32.8% males. The result of Pearson correlation analysis depicted a significant negative linkage of compulsive social media use and psychological well-being; significant positive association between compulsive social media use and social media fatigue; significant negative linkage between social media fatigue and psychological well-being. Besides, the PROCESS Macro mediation analysis determined that the mediating role of social media fatigue in the association of compulsive social media use and psychological well-being was not significant. This study is beneficial not only in paving a way for future investigations for this topic in the Malaysian context but also put a light on the consequence of compulsive social media usage so young adults can be more mindful of their social media usage in order to take care of their psychological well-being. |
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| spelling | utar-45682022-10-13T08:09:35Z The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator Foong, Chee Ee Lau, Yau Chee Sarvinna, Vasuthevan H Social Sciences (General) HT Communities. Classes. Races There was an increase of 2 million social media users since 2020, and a long period of social media usage led to psychological consequences of depression and low psychological well-being. Compulsive social media use and social media fatigue were reported as factors that lead to poor psychological well-being. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the associations of compulsive social media use, social media fatigue and psychological well-being, and social media fatigue as the mediator in the association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being. The questionnaires were distributed to 119 Malaysian young adults (M = 22.67, SD = 2.33), respectively 67.2% females and 32.8% males. The result of Pearson correlation analysis depicted a significant negative linkage of compulsive social media use and psychological well-being; significant positive association between compulsive social media use and social media fatigue; significant negative linkage between social media fatigue and psychological well-being. Besides, the PROCESS Macro mediation analysis determined that the mediating role of social media fatigue in the association of compulsive social media use and psychological well-being was not significant. This study is beneficial not only in paving a way for future investigations for this topic in the Malaysian context but also put a light on the consequence of compulsive social media usage so young adults can be more mindful of their social media usage in order to take care of their psychological well-being. 2022-04-04 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4568/1/FYP_PY_FCE_2022.pdf Foong, Chee Ee and Lau, Yau Chee and Sarvinna, Vasuthevan (2022) The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4568/ |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) HT Communities. Classes. Races Foong, Chee Ee Lau, Yau Chee Sarvinna, Vasuthevan The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title | The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title_full | The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title_fullStr | The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title_full_unstemmed | The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title_short | The association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in Malaysia: Social media fatigue as a mediator |
| title_sort | association between compulsive social media use and psychological well-being among young adults in malaysia: social media fatigue as a mediator |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| url | http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4568/ http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4568/1/FYP_PY_FCE_2022.pdf |