Association between Social Media Addiction and Life Satisfaction among University Student

Abstract

Objectives: The present study aims to assess the level of social media addiction and the level of life satisfaction among university students; and to determine the association between social media addiction and life satisfaction. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional design that is initiated for the period of January 1st to May 1st, 2018 on a sample consisted of (200) students which was selected by convenient sampling method from five colleges at University of Baghdad that are: College of Nursing, College of Arts, College of Sciences, College of Physical Educations, and Ibn Rushed College of Education. The questionnaire is designed and adopted which consists of three parts; the first part is contained the covering letter and the demographic variable of the students, the second part is concerned with Social Media Addiction Scale, and the third part concerned with Satisfaction with Life Scale. The data have been collected through the utilization of the self-administrative report as a mean of data collection and analyzed by application of statistical package for social science IBM SPSS (v. 24). Results: The result referred that student are showing moderate level of social media addiction (60%) and moderate level of life satisfaction (66.5%). there is strong positive correlation between life satisfaction and social media addiction among students evidenced by high significance at p-value= 0.005. Conclusions: The study concluded that social media addiction is positively influence the life satisfaction evidenced by positive association.