An increasing number of educational institutions are . They spend more time on social media for communicating with friends or strangers or possibly they just passively receive the content produced out of any educational scope just for entertainment. Yet, the instances of the latter were more salient and the negative psychological symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and stress have been far from negligible.
PDF Influence of Social Media on the Social Behavior of Students as Viewed J. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.085. In our model, we take student use of social media as a factor that boosts student intrinsic motivation to learn, therefore, facilitating his/her engagement and creativity. This study suggests that educational institutions, teachers, students, and parents should realise the positive application of social media in academia and should encourage the students to utilise the platforms of social media, say Researchgate, Scribd, Linkedin, Academia.edu, etc. They may want to know more about the actual effects of the over-reliance on and the excessive (and actually obsessive) use of social media on students developing certain images of self and certain emotions which are not necessarily positive.
The impact of social media on students' social interaction Innovative research methods, case studies or else, can be used to further explore the causal relations among the different features of social media use and the development of different affective variables in teachers or learners. doi: 10.1353/jip.2015.0013, Fredrickson, B. L. (2001). The counselors can be made aware of the potential adverse effects of social networking and can adapt the content of their inquiries accordingly. Building systems to understand this information can effectively monitor the spread of misinformation and verify user claims. A total 50 students from each of the selected schools will be issued a questionnaire to fill for the study. It is conjectured that the ubiquitous role of social media in student life establishes unrealistic expectations and promotes continuous comparison as also pinpointed in the Interpretation Comparison Model (Stapel and Koomen, 2000; Stapel, 2007). Our research does not only establish a relationship among the use of social media and its better and positive outcomes, but it also highlights the underlying psychological mechanism in these relationships in the form of intrinsic motivation. A constant observation of how other students or peers are showing their instances of achievement leads to higher self-evaluation (Stapel and Koomen, 2000). Table 3 reports the values of descriptive statistics and inter-correlations. That's why we huddle with students across the country to empower them to navigate their social world - including social media and technology - positively. Students should be careful of bullies and their negative role and impact during academic activities in social media.
PDF The Impact of Social Media on Student Academic Life in Higher Education Frequent use of social networking sites is associated with poor psychological functioning among children and adolescents. . The data required for this research were collected through a survey conducted in the Anhui Province of P.R. Social networking sites addiction and adolescent depression: A moderated mediation model of rumination and self-esteem. Online social networking amongst teens: Friend or foe? Note: Unstandardised regression coefficients are shown; LLCI=95% Bias corrected lower limit confidence interval; ULCI=95% Bias corrected upper limit confidence interval. Instead, a handful of research scholars have also suggested a relationship between students intrinsic motivation and innovation and creativity (Gu, He, and Liu Citation2017; Jaquith Citation2011; Moneta and Siu Citation2002). The sorts of interventions needed to moderate the potential negative effects of social networking on them can be different too, all requiring a new line of research in education domain. Rev. Similarly, Mathewson (2020) investigated the effect of using social media on college students mental health. Psychol. If teachers are informed of the recent research findings about the potential effects of massively using social media on students, they may find ways to reduce students distraction or confusion in class due to the excessive or over-reliant use of these networks. Social media has turned into an essential element of individuals lives including students in todays world of communication. Hanprathet et al. To establish construct validity, factor loadings of all the items of the variables of our study were computed. These values have provided us a preliminary support to our hypothesised relationships. Citation2012). Chukwuere and Chukwuere (2017) maintained that social media platforms can be considered the most important source of changing individuals mood, because when someone is passively using a social media platform seemingly with no special purpose, s/he can finally feel that his/her mood has changed as a function of the nature of content overviewed. This research work seeks to determine the effects of social mediaboth good and badon students' academic achievement and student engagement on social media sites. The impact of social media on social comparison and envy in teenagers: The moderating role of the parent comparing children and in-group competition among friends. Thus, significantly more research is needed in different contexts and cultures to compare the results. doi: 10.1080/07370016.2014.926677, Wang, P., Wang, X., Wu, Y., Xie, X., Wang, X., Zhao, F., et al. At the same time, social media platforms allow students to connect, network, and communicate. Soc. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.11.010, Vernon, L., Modecki, K. L., and Barber, B. L. (2017). Citation2017; Sigala and Chalkiti Citation2015). The study is conducted using self designed interview schedule on 100 students of class IX and X from annually flood affected regions of Baksa district. Behav. Their main reasons for using social media might be different from school students as well, which need to be investigated more thoroughly. Educ. doi: 10.5455/jmas.236927, Banjanin, N., Banjanin, N., Dimitrijevic, I., and Pantic, I. Students at schools or universities need to learn self-worth to resist the adverse effects of the superficial support they receive from social media. Social Media and Student Engagement As students, logically expected, spend more time with their teachers than counselors, they may be better and more receptive to the advice given by the former than the latter. This seems to be essential as different affective factors such as anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and the like have a developmental nature. Citation2016; Nunnally and Bernstein Citation1978). (2014). Therefore, positive and negative moods can easily be transferred among the population using social media networks (Chukwuere and Chukwuere, 2017). Citation2016; Sutherland and Jalali Citation2017). 28, 225262.
Stapel, D. A. The findings reveal a positive link among social media utilisation and the engagement and creativity of higher education students. (Citation2007). The . News. These researchers found that increased investment in social media predicted higher depression in adolescent students, which was a function of the effect of higher levels of disrupted sleep. Cyberbullying was assessed with a three items scale developed by Lacey and Cornell (Citation2013). Note: Loadings:= Factor Loading, CA=Cronbachs alpha; CR=composite reliability; AVE=average variance extracted.
33 Social Media Survey Questionnaires - Formpl Behav. Relationship between internet use and depression: Focus on physiological mood oscillations, social networking and online addictive behavior. Zhang and Bartol (Citation2010, 111) defined intrinsic motivation as the extent to which an individual is inner-directed, is interested in, or fascinated with a task, and engages in it for the sake of the task itself. Am. 43, 308312. Yet, probably students need to be instructed on how to take advantage of the media and to be the least affected negatively by its occasional superficial and unrepresentative content. Also, teachers can mediate between learners and social media to manipulate the time learners spend on social media. Barry et al. Also, these mixed positive and negative effects are similar to the findings of several other relevant studies on general populations psychological and emotional health. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. Taking up this research gap, we attempt to explore the association among use of social media and its positive consequences, for example, academic engagement and creativity. when it is at 1SD (effect=0.05, LLCI: 0.124, ULCI: 0.005). Genuine Student Engagement in School Cyberbullying Education, Teachers and Facebook: Using Online Groups to Improve Students Communication and Engagement in Education, How Creativity was Affected by Environmental Factors and Individual Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Perspective, Sleep it off: Bullying and Sleep Disturbances in Adolescents, Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior on Student Creative Achievement: Mediation of Intrinsic Motivation and Moderation of Openness to Experience, Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error, The Questionable Promise of Social Media for Education: Connective Learning and the Commercial Imperative, Knowledge Generation for Enhancing Design Creativity Through co-Creative Virtual Learning Communities. For example, we identify whether the utilisation of social media is linked to outcomes, such as student academic engagement and student creativity. A depressed or stressed-out mood can follow. The goal of social media is to create an online community that shares . Citation2019). Frison and Eggermont (2016) examined the relationships between different forms of Facebook use, perceived social support of social media, and male and female students depressed mood. Past study has also found similar findings for instance, Kim and Drumwright (Citation2016) argued that social media usage may enhance individuals intrinsic motivation. Considering the ubiquity of social media in everybody life including student life worldwide, it seems that more coping and compensatory strategies should be contrived to moderate the adverse psychological effects of the pervasive use of social media on students. Citation2015; Yang et al. People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2007.03.001, Festinger, L. (1954). Citation2016). This study was sponsored by Wuxi Philosophy and Social Sciences bidding projectSpecial Project for Safeguarding the Rights and Interests of Workers in the New Form of Employment (Grant No. The impact of social media on social lifestyle: A case study of university female students. The Task-8 of the 2023 International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation . J. Adolesc. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.02.008, Weng, L., and Menczer, F. (2015). Though social media has created tremendous chances for sharing ideas and emotions, the kind of social support it provides might fail to meet students' emotional . Soc. There is a significant dearth of longitudinal investigation on the effect of social media on developing positive or negative emotions in students. Social media activity showed to be positively and moderately associated with depression and anxiety. Individ. learning environment for students. Vernon et al. Social media is a form of communication in which people exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.
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PDF Students Use of Social Media: Its Relationship to Academic Performance This stress-provoking effect of social media has been also pinpointed by Weng and Menczer (2015), who contended that social media becomes a main source of stress because people often share all kinds of posts, comments, and stories ranging from politics and economics, to personal and social affairs. Impacts of new technologies on media usage and social behavior in domestic environments. Psychol. Tapestry showcases works produced by two cohorts of second-year Bachelor of Design in Architecture students during Studio 2B, Let Every Voice Be Heard.Following two iterations of the studio in 2021 and 2022, teaching colleagues and Adjacency Studio founders Justine Anderson, Tara Sydney and Caitlin Condon, were inspired to share their student's clever and empathetic work with a wider audience. Assoc. Using social media can play a major role in university students psychological well-being than expected. Then, this good or bad mood is easily shared with others in a flash through the social media. Intrinsic motivation is positively associated with student outcomes (Bempechat and Shernoff Citation2012; Saeed and Zyngier Citation2012). The main survey tool, a social media questionnaire on awareness, use, and satisfaction with a selection of social media, shows how students assess the suitability of these platforms for learning. The results of this study further reveal that intrinsic motivation intermediates the association among students utilisation of social media and its outcomes, for example, students engagement and creativity. The findings showed that the types and frequency of using social media and the students perceived mental health were significantly correlated with each other. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.002, Charoensukmongkol, P. (2018). Admittedly, it is neither possible to discard the use of social media in todays academic life, nor to keep students use of social networks fully controlled. These researchers found that the use of social media for more than 2 h a day was correlated with a higher intensity of psychological distress. The exemplary works of research on this topic in recent years will be reviewed here, hoping to shed light on the positive and negative effects of these ever-growing influential platforms on the psychology of students. Institutions, in particular, teach their students to use the latest, popular, and social media tools that can enhance their intrinsic motivation in academic activities. Why do you use these social networking sites? Yes No 2. The current study is an attempt to understand how and when the use of social media by the students is related to their academic engagement and creativity. Though technology has resulted in uncountable benefits in our lives, the adverse impact of technology on human life in the form of cyberbullying is a harsh reality. It specifically aimed to respond to these questions: 1. Social networking site use: Linked to adolescents social self-concept, self-esteem, and depressed mood. Our study found that student use of social media is positively related with students intrinsic motivation which is subsequently related to students engagement and students creativity in academia. Creativity refers to the interaction among aptitude, process, and the environment by which an individual or group produces a perceptible product that is both novel and useful as defined within a social context (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow Citation2004, 90). Past researches revealed that social media is getting popular among students, and recent researchers have noted the considerable influence of social media utilisation in academia (Friesen and Lowe Citation2012; Greenhow and Lewin Citation2016; Malik et al. 31, 133144. The survey questionnaire was administered to students at NIT, Tanzania. Researchers argue that an important characteristic of higher education students is creativity (Allina Citation2018; Richardson and Mishra Citation2018; Soh Citation2017) which has become the key characteristic of students and an essential twenty-first-century skill (Chan and Yuen Citation2014; Robinson Citation2001; Wagner Citation2014). Int. The existing literature shows that there are some positive and some negative affective impacts. (2012) explored the relations between depression and the identity associated with the use of the popular social media, the Facebook. It's also a platform where you can share your thoughts, feelings, or opinions as well as read others' stories. In recent years, several studies have been conducted to explore the potential effects of social media on students affective traits, such as stress, anxiety, depression, and so on. The use of social media is incomparably on the rise among students, influenced by the globalized forms of communication and the post-pandemic rush to use multiple social media platforms for education in different fields of study.