Social Media Addiction and Sleep Problem: A Structural Equation Modelling

A good sleep is important for all students and also for dentistry students who have a very intense course schedule. The purpose of this research study is to find relation strength between social media addiction and sleep problem of dentistry students. After delivering a detailed literature review, t...

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Main Authors Bulut, Ayse, Tuncay, Nazime
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.04.2020
Subjects
Addictive Behavior
College Students
Computer Games
Dental Schools
Gender Differences
Handheld Devices
Sleep
Social Media
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Summary:A good sleep is important for all students and also for dentistry students who have a very intense course schedule. The purpose of this research study is to find relation strength between social media addiction and sleep problem of dentistry students. After delivering a detailed literature review, the authors administer a 37-item online questionnaire to dental students (N=146). This study examines social media usage statistics, digital game addiction, social media addiction, amount of sleep, sleepy in course, sleep problem and differences among gender and forms; and it presents a new model, Digital Game Addiction -- Social Media Addiction -- Amount of Sleep -- Sleepy in Course Model (GSAS model) showing relationship between amount of sleep, sleepy in course, digital game addiction and social media addiction. Recommendations to improve quality of sleep are given by the authors. Unexpectedly, female students are found to be more socially addicted and 1st-2nd form (GR1) students are found to have more sleep problems than 3rd-4th form (GR2) students. In this research students described themselves as social media addicted, digital game addicted, alcohol addicted and tea/coffee addicted. Therefore, this study is limited with 146 students' self-evaluations. More studies related with, GSAS model is recommended.