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Introduction: Adolescents who get social media addiction, dopamine discharges occur in their bodies that create anxious feelings that can cause problems in social behavior in schools, living quarters, and peer social environments, and even trigger criminal acts such as defamation, slander, kidnapping, and fraud. The purpose of this research was to analyze the relationship between social media addiction and anxiety and the risk of social health disasters in adolescents. Methods: This research method is quantitative analytic descriptive with a cross-sectional design. The population in this study were 385 students in one of the junior high schools in the Yogyakarta area of Indonesia. Data retrieval technique in this research uses Stratified Random Sampling technique. Data on social media addiction, anxiety and the risk of social health disaster were analyzed by Spearman Rank Test, a numerical correlation statistical test, with SPSS 21. Results: The results showed that the mean value of the age variable was 13.91, social media addiction was 60.38, anxiety was 14.46, and the risk of social health disaster was 67.97. The results of the statistical hypothesis test obtained that there was no significant relationship between social media addiction, anxiety, and social health disaster risk variables in adolescents. Conclusion: The conclusion of this research obtained that social media access can cause negative and positive impacts. Anxiety and the risk of social health disasters events are thought to be influenced by external factors.

Highlights

  • Adolescents who get social media addiction, dopamine discharges occur in their bodies that create anxious feelings that can cause problems in social behavior in schools, living quarters, and peer social environments, and even trigger criminal acts such as defamation, slander, kidnapping, and fraud

  • The type of research conducted in this research is quantitative research with comparative analytical research methods using cross sectional design to study the dynamics of differences between social media addiction, anxiety and the risk of social health disasters

  • It can be seen that the variables of age, social media addiction, anxiety and the risk of social health disasters are not normally distributed (P value

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Introduction

Adolescents who get social media addiction, dopamine discharges occur in their bodies that create anxious feelings that can cause problems in social behavior in schools, living quarters, and peer social environments, and even trigger criminal acts such as defamation, slander, kidnapping, and fraud. Several times the news about social health problems in adolescents publish at the media today, such as cases of violence, brawls among groups of teenagers, rape of friends, even the murder of a vehicle driver who is a teenager These social health problems are thought to be caused by psychological conditions that are still unstable due to the feeling of anxiety and social media addiction. This can be seen from the number of use of social media networking sites in Indonesia in 2016 has reached 132.7 million users or around 51.5% of the total Indonesian population of 256.2 million. The most social media users are on the island of Java with a total user of 86,339,350 users or around 65% of the total internet users (Pratikta, 2013)

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