Social media addiction among adolescents: Its relationship to sleep quality and life satisfaction

Abstract

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.