Problematic Facebook Use

That internet is developing fast and its cost is becoming cheaper rapidly increases the number of people using this technology. Although internet provides miscellaneous benefits for the users, it also causes them to encounter certain difficulties. Particularly, those young people, who leave their families to study at a university spend most of their time on the internet because of such personal and social problems as having low satisfaction from life, having social anxiety, not being able to communicate or establish relationships and feeling lonely. And this could lead to internet addiction in young people. The aim of this study is to discuss the internet addiction levels of freshmen and sophomores at university within the scope of educational theories and to predict addiction according to various variables. Survey method is used in the study. The study was carried out on 329 freshmen and sophomores studying at economics, science teaching, primary school mathematics education, primary school teaching and social sciences teaching departments of Bartın University in the second term of 2012-2013 academic year. As an end of the study, factors that cause to internet addiction and what can be done to remove these factors are discussed within theoretical framework.

The purposes of this study are to: (1) develop a valid and reliable scale for measuring university students' Facebook use purposes (FbUPs), and (2) investigate their FbUPs in terms of the variables of gender, Fb friend number, and use frequency as the indicators of Fb use profile. A total of 1098 students participated in the study from a university located in the north of Turkey. The study was conducted in two separate stages. First was the stage of scale development with 788 participants. Findings of this stage showed that The Scale-for Facebook Use Purposes (S-FbUPs) had three factors with 11-items, indicating good measurement features. In the second stage, data were collected from 310 participants to examine the effects of their Fb use profiles on the FbUPs. The findings of this stage showed that females used Fb more meaningfully than males, for educational and informational purposes. There were main significant effects of Fb friend number on the variables of "interpersonal interaction" and "self-promotion to others". Besides, the findings indicated that the students who accessed Fb most often had higher self-promotion tendency. Points for future research and practical implications are also discussed in this paper.

Problematic use of social networking sites (SNS) and its adverse consequences has become prevalent; yet, little is known about its conceptualization and etiology. This study draws on dual-system theory to investigate the drivers of problematic use of SNS and its adverse consequences. SEM analyses of time-lagged data collected from 341 Facebook users implicate an imbalance between two systems in the human mind, involving strong cognitive-emotional preoccupation with using the SNS (system 1) and weak cognitive-behavioral control over using the SNS (system 2), as the driver of problematic SNS use behaviors. Problematic use of SNS in turn, diminished users’ academic performance. This study contributes to research on the dark side of IS use by conceptualizing problematic IS use and explaining its drivers and consequences. It demonstrates that the dual-system theory is an appropriate theoretical perspective for explaining problematic IS use, superior to planned behavior-based models. It also explains some of the precursors of the dual system and offers practical implications to IT artifact designers and users.

The problematic use of social networking sites is becoming a major public health concern. Previous research has found that adolescents who engage in a problematic use of social networking sites are likely to show maladjustment problems. However, little is known about its links with peer aggression and victimization. The main goal of this study was to analyze the relationship between problematic use of online social networking sites, peer aggression –overt vs. relational and reactive vs. instrumental–, and peer victimization –overt physical and verbal, and relational–, taking into account gender and age (in early and mid-adolescence). Participants were selected using randomized cluster sampling considering school and class as clusters. A battery of instruments was applied to 1,952 adolescents' secondary students from Spain (Andalusia) (50.4% boys), aged 11 to 16 (M = 14.07, SD = 1.39). Results showed that girls and 14–16 adolescents were more involved in a problematic use of online social networking sites. Furthermore, adolescents with high problematic use of online social networking sites were more involved in overt—reactive and instrumental—and relational—reactive and instrumental—aggressive behaviors, and self-reported higher levels of overt—physical and verbal—and relational victimization. Even though boys indicated higher levels of all types of victimization, girls with high problematic use of online social networking sites scored the highest on relational victimization. Relating to age, early adolescents (aged 11–14) with higher problematic use of online social networking sites reported the highest levels of overt verbal and relational victimization. Overall, results suggested the co-occurrence of problematic use of online social networking sites, peer aggression and victimization. In addition, results showed the influence that gender and age had on peer victimization. This study highlights the continuity between offline and online domains with regard to maladjustment problems in adolescence.

Celem artykułu było zdiagnozowanie skali zjawiska problematycznego użytkowania internetu (PIU) oraz problematycznego użytkowania portali społecznościowych (SNS). Badania zrealizowano w Polsce w 2017 na próbie 2670 adolescentów (średnia wieku=15,43, przy odchyleniu standardowym 1,5). W ramach badań wykorzystano test PIU oraz skalę użytkowania Facebooka z Bergen. Analizując wyniki zauważono, że 2,2% młodych osób posiada wszystkie faktory PIU, natomiast około 8% połowę faktorów świadczących o PIU. Ponadto mimo, że dziewczęta o wiele intensywniej użytkują SNS, około 25% z nich nie posiada żadnego symptomu PIU. Obecne formy profilaktyki szkolnej i rodzinnej (kontrola rodzicielska) w grupie adolescentów nie przyczyniają się do obniżenia PIU. Grupa adolescentów jest niehomogeniczna; osoby używające internetu w sposób intensywny, mające podwyższone faktory PIU stanowią tylko jej część. Zjawisko PIU, uzależnienia od internetu oraz współwystępujących zaburzeń podlega obecnie intensywniej analizie w zakresie wyodrębnienia kluczowych predykatorów, pozwalających na trafną i rzetelną diagnozę zarówno w perspektywie indywidulanej jak i makrospołecznej.

The problematic use of social networking sites is becoming a major public health concern. Previous research has found that adolescents who engage in a problematic use of social networking sites are likely to show maladjustment problems. However, little is known about its links with peer aggression and victimization. The main goal of this study was to analyze the relationship between problematic use of online social networking sites, peer aggression -overt vs. relational and reactive vs. instrumental-, and peer victimization -overt physical and verbal, and relational-, taking into account gender and age (in early and mid-adolescence). Participants were selected using randomized cluster sampling considering school and class as clusters. A battery of instruments was applied to 1,952 adolescents' secondary students from Spain (Andalusia) (50.4% boys), aged 11 to 16 ( = 14.07, = 1.39). Results showed that girls and 14-16 adolescents were more involved in a problematic use of online s...