THE PRELIMINARY STUDY: SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION

MOHD SALIM, SARA SHAFIQAH and SYED AHMAD FIKRI, SHARIFAH MIRRAH and IBRAHIM, MUHAMAD SHAMSUL THE PRELIMINARY STUDY: SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION. Jurnal EVOLUSI, 2 (1). ISSN 2735-2234

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Abstract

Social interaction and personal expressions are typical functions offered by social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Besides, social media also become users personal diaries to record and share their daily activities via photos, videos, music, and personal views regarding specific issues. With various kinds of activities that could be performed using socialmedia, users tend to spend long hours on social media to get social contact and meet their need for socialising. Through social media, users are enjoying establishing the social connection. Thus, social media users who spend excessive time online tend to become addicted to the internet resulted from limited traditional social skills. As a result, users believe they are better individuals while online. The study conducted a pre-test for 110 respondents to determine the instrument reliability. The responses were recorded using an online survey. Theinstrument is considered reliable because the reliability value is more than 0.7 for the research instrument. The study also conducted a pre-analysis to test the research hypotheses. The pre-analysis indicated that social anxiety, happiness, and intimacy show a high relationship with the respondents' addiction to social media. The pre-analysis finding supported all the hypotheses suggested in this research. Hence, the researcher anticipates similarfindings when the study conducted an actual data collection.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social anxiety,Happiness,Intimacy,Social media addiction
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LC Special aspects of education L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Accountancy and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Shariffah Shuhaiza Syed Mohd Nor
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2021 06:40
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2021 06:41
URI:	http://eprints.kuptm.edu.my/id/eprint/1935

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