Effects of social networking services on academic performance and self-esteem: A cross-sectional study among medical students.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Takieddin, Siba Ziad Alghamdi, Faris Saeed Fida, Hamza Loai Alghamdi, Maha Khider Kamfar, Renad Ahmed Alsaidlani, Rawan Hamed Khojah, Imad Mohammed
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	Background:Social networking services (SNS) are a subcategory of social media that provide a useful tool for an individual’s practical life and social relations. Since the impact of SNS on students’ lives is a relatively neglected topic, we aimed to investigate the effect of social media on academic performance and self-esteem.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted with 373 medical students distributed across different academic years. Data was collected and analyzed using measures of central tendency to describe numerical variables, while frequencies and percentages were used for categorical variables. Pearson’s chisquared test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, independent sample t-test, and the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to identify relationships between the variables. All P values < 0.05 were considered significant using a 95% confidence interval and a 5% margin of error.Results:The majority of our sample believed that SNSs were useful, and 37.5% believed that social media positively affected their academic performance. However, no significant relationship was found between the time spent on social media and the students’ grade point average (GPA). Conversely, there was a significant relationship between students’ perceived addiction to social media and their self-worth, along with a positive correlation between GPA and self-esteem.Conclusion:Almost half of our participants agreed that social media is a helpful method for finding useful information. Nevertheless, excessive usage has been found to have a harmful effect on the students’ health and self-esteem.
ISSN	22494863
Volume Number	11
PubMed Central reference number	PMC9810851
Issue Number	10
PubMed reference number	36618167
Journal	Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care [J Family Med Prim Care]
e-ISSN	22787135
DOI	10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_528_22
Language	English
Publisher	Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
Publisher Date	2022-10-31
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Subject Keyword	Academic years grade-point average medical students self-esteem social media social networking service
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Family Practice