Empirical Analysis of Religiosity as Predictor of Social Media Addiction
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v4i10.826Keywords:
Social Media, Religiosity, AddictionAbstract
This study sought to examine the dimensions of social media addiction and its relationship to religiosity. To investigate the matter, the present research utilized a well-known Internet addiction scale and modified it to fit social media (Young, 1996). Factor analysis of items generated by a sample of 1326 participants, three addiction factors were apparent. These factors were later regressed on a scale of religiosity. This scale contained a single factor based on factor analysis. Results indicated that social media addiction had three factors; "Social Consequences", "Time Displacement" and "Compulsive feelings. Religiosity, on the other hand, contained a single factor. Both of these results were arrived at using factor analysis of their respective scales. The relationship between religiosity and social media addiction was then examined using linear regression. The results indicated that only two of the addiction factors were significantly related to religiosity. Future research should address the operationalization of the concept of religiosity to account for multiple dimensions.References
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