Susceptibility to Social Media Addiction in Adolescents with Insecure Attachment
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attachment style, insecure/secure attachment, social media addictionAbstract
The use of social networking sites is rapidly growing among individuals of all ages. The term addiction to social media is characterized by the excessive use of social networking sites, in addition to the withdrawal symptoms, such as restlessness, compulsion, anxiety of missing etc. A huge number of researches have been conducted concerning the causes and impact of social media addiction. The present research is concerned with the examination of the contribution of attachment style and age in social media addiction. For this purpose 133 graduate students were taken by the method of convenient sampling. Data was collected by using Inventory for Attachment Style (IAS) and a prepared questionnaire for assessing social media addiction. The result of this study revealed that the individuals with insecure attachment were more vulnerable to fall the victim of social media addiction. Univariate ANOVA has shown that addicted and non-addicted social media users differed significantly with respect to attachment style (F= 15.08; ρ ˂ .01). The correlation between attachment style and the Discriminant function suggested that insecurely attached individuals were more likely to be addicted of social networking sites, whereas securely attached individuals were less likely to be addicted of social media. Age of the participants was not found to be significant predictor.
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