ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Risk Factors Associated With Social Media Addiction: An Exploratory Study.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Mapping research on ICT addiction: a comprehensive review of Internet, smartphone, social media, and gaming addictions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Attachment beyond the screen: The influences of demographic factors and parasocial relationships on social media use in Qatar.PloS one · 2025Article
- When time slows down: temporal distortion and addictive social media use.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Problematic usage of the internet among Hungarian elementary school children: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The associations between optimism, personal growth initiative and the latent classes of social media addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The use of social media is becoming a necessary daily activity in today's society. Excessive and compulsive use of social media may lead to social media addiction (SMA). The main aim of this study was to investigate whether demographic factors (including age and gender), impulsivity, self-esteem, emotions, and attentional bias were risk factors associated with SMA. The study was conducted in a non-clinical sample of college students (
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