TRAIT MINDFULNESS AS A PROTECTIVE FACTOR IN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FACEBOOK ADDICTION AMONG TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

• Authors: Eşkisu Mustafa , Çam Zekeriya , Gelibolu Sedat , Rasmussen Kyler Ray
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Facebook addiction is a growing issue that has increasingly attracted the attention of clinicians and researchers in a variety of countries and cultures. Relying on the Cognitive-Behavioural Model for Pathological Internet Use, and in a sample of Turkish undergraduates, we investigate whether mindfulness might account for how self-esteem and psychological problems (depression, anxiety, and stress) connect to Facebook addiction. A total of 298 college students completed measures of Facebook addiction, self-esteem, mindfulness and psychological problems, which we analysed using path analysis, testing various models of show Facebook addiction might be predicted by these factors. We found that Facebook addiction was positively associated with psychological problems and negatively associated with self-esteem and mindfulness, with mindfulness fully accounting for the association between psychological problems, self-esteem and Facebook addiction. These results support the role of mindfulness in the prevention of Facebook addiction and the treatment of addicted individuals. This study also helps clarify previous research connecting mindfulness to Internet addiction, and extends those findings cross-culturally to a Turkish context.

Keywords

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MINDFULNESS; FACEBOOK ADDICTION; DEPRESSION; ANXIETY; STRESS; TURKISH STUDENTS

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 213 – 231

Contributors

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Eşkisu Mustafa

• Faculty of Education, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, 24100, Erzincan, Turkey

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Çam Zekeriya

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Gelibolu Sedat

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Rasmussen Kyler Ray

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2020.03.801