ผู้วิจัย/Authors: kunya phanichsiri, benjaporn tuntasood

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Social Media Addiction and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Symptoms in Hgigh School Students in Bangkok.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of the Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol 61, No 3, July-September 2017, Page 191-204.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective: 1) To assess the prevalence and related factors of social media addiction, and association between social media addiction and attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms in high school students in Bangkok.

Methods: A coss-sectional descriptive study was conducted. Data were collected from parents and students in high schools in Bangkok. The sample size was 601 subjects. Total 428 questionnaires were sent back. The study was conducted between January and March 2016. The questionnaire consisted of three sections. First section included questions involving demographic data and patterns of social media use. Second section is social media addiction test (SMAT). Third section is Thai version of SNAP-IV rating scale, parent version.

Results: Prevalence of social media addiction in hight school students in Bangkok was 17.6 percent. From data analysis, social media addiction was associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms. In multinormial logistic regression analysis, not having attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms decreased the chance of social media addiction but found no statistical significance. In addition, statistically significant factors that can decrease the chance of social media addiction are amount of time that spent on social media less than 4 hours per day, not using Instagram, and not using social media for sharing messages/pictures and relieving stress.

Conclusion: Prevalence of social media addiction in high school students in Bangkok was 17.6 percent. This is the first study examing the association between social media addiction and attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms in Thailand, found that social media addiction was associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms. Not having attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms decreased the chance of social media addiction but found no statistical significance. However, we found many factors that can decrease the chance of social media addiction. These data important and can use for establishing quidelines to control social media use, especially in adolescents, who are vulnerable to developing social media addiction.

Keywords: social media addiction, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), adolescent

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2016

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Chulangkorn University, Chulalongkorn Hospital

Code: 2017000027

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Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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