Social media addiction, self-control and frustration intolerance among university students
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2022
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UMT Lahore
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The objective of this study was to find out the relationship between social media addiction, self-control and frustration among the university students. A sample of 200 students were taken within the age range 18-25 years. Sample comprised of 68 males and 132 females and was obtained through random sampling. Social Networking Addiction Scale (Shahnawaz & Rehman, 2020), Self-Control Scale (Tangney et al., 2004) and Frustration Discomfort Scale (Harrington, 2005) were used for data collection. It was revealed in the results that there was a significant negative relationship between social networking addiction and self-control and there is a significant positive relationship between social networking addiction and frustration discomfort. Findings also showed that there is a significant negative relationship between self-control and frustration discomfort. Results also demonstrated that there was significant gender difference upon social media addiction and frustration discomfort. There was no significant gender difference in terms of the self-control among the university students. There was significant gender difference for all sub-scales except Tolerance sub-scale of social networking addiction scale. Moreover, there was significant gender difference for all sub-scales except Achievement Intolerance sub-scale of Frustration Discomfort Scale. This research is beneficial for university students to know about that how social media addiction leave bad effects on their self-control level.