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Daily Use of social media among teenagers increase risk of anxiety

Samuel A.

Houston Christian University

Abstract

Daily Use of social media among teenagers increase risk of anxiety

Introduction

Social media usage has been on a rise every day as time goes by because of the rapid increase of technology and its availability to the younger generations. “According to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 750 13-to-17-year-olds found that 45% are online constantly and 95% use social media platforms people ages 16 to 24 spend over three hours using social media”. Social media had its ups when it came to communication with others, alerting people by being aware of events happening around the world, and being advertised to buy certain products or services. However, technology has led to negative factors, especially addiction and cyberbullying, which adversely affect young adults and adolescents. For this reason, it is concluded that daily usage of social media like Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok increases the risk of anxiety. The independent variable will be the length of time that the young adult or teenager will be assessing their social media accounts, while the dependent variable is whether they will have symptoms of anxiety or not. The study results will be essential to society because it will help people to limit their interaction with social media. Additionally, the study will be a wake-up call to parents and teachers to check learners’ engagement in social media activity and control it to prevent adverse impacts on them. Limitations of other studies included ways of measuring anxiety.

Method

Participants

Approximately 320 teenagers were recruited from various high schools in the Houston area. Participants must be in the age range of 14 to 18 years old to participate. Out of 320 teenagers, 310 teenagers consented to participate in the study. There were a variety of races among the participants, both male and female genders. some are in relationships, and some are not. Most of them, if not all of them, are from a middle-class background. Before these participants consented to participate in the study, I had to call and email all the participants' parents for consent before starting the study. In the end, the reward for participation was a $50 Amazon gift card. This study will take o month to complete.

Design

So, this study was focused on how the more teenagers use social media daily, the more they are likely to have anxieties. This study had a correlational design and there were no variables that were particularly manipulated. The main goal was to find a negative correlation between the daily usage of social media among teenagers and the likelihood of having anxieties. The predictor value is teenagers using social media apps such as Instagram, twitter, Tik Tok, apps that teenagers mostly be on nowadays. The criterion value is the likelihood of teenagers having symptoms of anxieties. This was a longitudinal study since I am following the same sample of participants over time in one month. For this design, there was an experimental and a control group, and I compared them both for the results. However, neither group knew what this study was about. For this design, it was hypothesized that daily usage of social media among teenagers would negatively correlate to the upcoming symptoms of anxiety.

Procedure

For the study, I chose teenagers in the age range of 14 to 18 from high schools because first, this is the age group that social media has a huge part in their lives of their generation. There are social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook that have quickly become a main part of young people’s lives, with over 90% now using social media, night, and day (Duggans and Smith, 2013). And second, high school was a perfect place to recruit teenagers for the study I had to conduct. So, on the flyers I stated that those who wanted to participate should each have a cell phone. Every participant was gathered at a Houston Christian University classroom. They were all given an informed consent form to fill out before being given instructions on the study. The study was anonymous to every participant. I then decided to send half of the participants outside, which was about 155 of them. And I gave instructions to the other half inside the classroom. They were the experimental group. They were being instructed to use their social media apps every day for at least two hours for four weeks. After four weeks, they were to come back to Houston Christian University they had to fill out the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) as well as the Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (ASQ) in the classroom. After I gave them instructions, I then let the participants leave the classroom and let the other half of the participants come in and they were the control group. I then instructed them to use their social media apps on their phones every other day of the week for four weeks. After four weeks, they came back to Houston Christian University and fill out the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire.

Measures

Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (ASQ)

Students had to take the Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire after their participation. The Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire is a brief self-report questionnaire that measures the intensity and frequency of symptoms and was used to upgrade to improve assessment on anxiety symptoms Baker (2019). This questionnaire was originally from Watson and Clark that first developed the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ). The questionnaire constructs assessed include restlessness, worry, trouble relaxing, concentration and memory difficulties, of course anxiety, etc. Questions are asked from the questionnaire like for instance, “Do you feel quite anxious much of the time?” or “Do you avoid certain situations because you are afraid of being negatively evaluated or embarrassed by others, or where embarrassment could lead to panic?”

Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A)

Students also took the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A), the computerized version. It was developed as a comuter-administrered. It evaluates the severity of symptoms of anxiety, whether it could be mild, moderate, severe, or very severe Kobak (1990). Max R. Hamilton was the one who developed the first version of the Hamilton Anxiety Scale back in 1959.

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Results

Method