Social media addiction among adolescents: Its relationship to sleep quality and life satisfaction
Eman Sayed Masoed, Reda Abd El Aal Thabet Omar, Amna Nagaty Abo El Magd and Rasha Shawky Elashry
Background: Social media is a double-edged sword. It provides us with lots of information, communication facilities, and many other benefits in work, education, and even leisure time.
The aim of this study: To assess social media addiction among adolescents and its relationship to sleep quality and life satisfaction.
Subjects and Methods: A Cross-sectional research design was utilized. A multistage random sample was used in this study, and 1014 adolescent students were included. Three tools were utilized in this study included; Tool I: Structured interviewing questionnaire, Part (1): Demographic Characteristics Questionnaire, Part (2): Social media history, Tool II: Social media use addiction scale, Tool III: the Pittsburgh Sleep quality index, and Tool IV: Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale.
Results: More than half of the studied adolescents' students had extremely social media use addict, the majority of them had unsatisfactory sleep quality, and more than three-quarters of them had a low satisfaction level toward their life. Also, a moderate negative association between social media use addict and adolescents' sleep quality and their satisfaction toward their life, and there was a strong negative association between adolescent sleep quality with their life satisfaction.
Conclusion: The present study highlighted the social media use addiction increased among adolescents' students and its effect reversely on their sleep quality and life satisfaction.
Recommendation: Continues educational programs regularly is suggested to identify adolescent's student acceptable uses of social media as well as reinforce proper use for social media accounts.
Eman Sayed Masoed, Reda Abd El Aal Thabet Omar, Amna Nagaty Abo El Magd, Rasha Shawky Elashry. Social media addiction among adolescents: Its relationship to sleep quality and life satisfaction . Int J Res Paediatric Nurs 2021;3(1):69-78. DOI: 10.33545/26641291.2021.v3.i1b.59