A Web-Based Intervention for Social Media Addiction Disorder Management in Higher Education: Quantitative Survey Study (Preprint)

• DOI: 10.2196/preprints.14834
• Publication Date: 2019-05-30T10:26:30Z
• Authors: Huseyin Dogan; Helmi Norman; Amen Alrobai; Nan Jiang; Norazah Nordin; Anita Adnan

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Social media addiction disorder has recently become a major concern and been reported to have negative impacts on postgraduate studies, particularly Facebook. Although previous studies investigated the effects of Facebook in learning settings, there still lack investigating relationship between online intervention features for focusing studies. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> In an attempt understand this relationship, study aimed carry out investigation effective management higher education. <title>METHODS</title> This was conducted quantitatively using surveys partial least square-structural equational modeling. The involved 200 postgraduates support group postgraduates. Bergen Addiction test used assess postgraduates’ level, whereas were perceptions addiction, which are as follows: (1) self-monitoring features, (2) manual control (3) notification (4) automatic (5) reward features. <title>RESULTS</title> discovered six factors (relapse, conflict, salience, tolerance, withdrawal, mood modification) five (notification, auto-control, reward, control, self-monitoring) that could be also revealed relapse is most important factor modification factor. Furthermore, findings indicated feature, feature. <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> study’s (addiction features) assist future developers educators development tools