Several other studies have already advocated for the positive impact of technology and social media on the student engagement (Cakir Citation2013; Chen, Lambert, and Guidry Citation2010; Schindler et al. J. Exp. (Getty Images) Social media connects people and amplifies different aspects of humanity in good and bad ways. Yet, probably students need to be instructed on how to take advantage of the media and to be the least affected negatively by its occasional superficial and unrepresentative content. Our research has some practical contributions for academicians, students, and the general public. A systematic review: The influence of social media on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents. The survey questionnaire was administered to students at NIT, Tanzania. Data collected from . Laura Tierney. Figure 2 reveals that the relationship between students use of social media and students intrinsic motivation is weaker at the higher level of Cyberbullying. Drawing on the assumptions of this theory, we believe that students interest in educational activities can be enhanced through the utilisation of social media, which will create more engagement and creativity of students. Social media has a negative impact on the academic performance of 21st-century undergraduate medical students. These researchers found a negative correlation between the time spent on social networking and mental distress. Christenson, Reschly, and Wylie (Citation2012) argue that the idea of academic engagement has been grown from students attention in the classroom to a full construct that is based on emotional, cognitive, and behavioural parts that further lead to students motivation for learning. The use of social media is incomparably on the rise among students, influenced by the globalized forms of communication and the post-pandemic rush to use multiple social media platforms for education in different fields of study. Your participation is appreciated as it may help bring mental health Jahnke, Haertel, and Wildt (Citation2017), are of the view that creativity in the students of higher education has become more relevant in the twenty-first century. Before getting down to the effects of social media on students emotional well-being, some exemplary works of research in recent years on the topic among general populations are reviewed. doi: 10.1037/xge0000528, PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar, Abbott, J. Fourth, we tested cyberbullying as the boundary condition in our model; future researchers can identify some other moderating variables in this model. These researchers found that increased investment in social media predicted higher depression in adolescent students, which was a function of the effect of higher levels of disrupted sleep. This study showed significant associations between depression and the number of identity-related information pieces shared on this social network. Learners understanding of this environment can be mediated by the image shaped via social media. Received: 03 August 2022; Accepted: 25 August 2022;Published: 15 September 2022. Relat. the impact of social media platforms on students' academic activities and to found out the . Children under 13 would be banned from social media under bipartisan Researchers believe that high intrinsic motivation in individuals leads them to be engaged and to work creatively (Malik et al. The data required for this research were collected through a survey conducted in the Anhui Province of P.R. As already suggested, counseling programs might help with raising students awareness of the potential psychological threats of social media to their health. 2020, 74, 304-319. The data were collected with the help of a questionnaire designed for gathering the students' opinions about the digital technologies and social media. Q. Based on this theory, social media can play the role of a mediational means between learners and the real environment. Chukwuere and Chukwuere (2017) maintained that social media platforms continue to be the major source of changing mood among general populations. Thus, teachers can try to make students aware of the potential hazards of investing too much of their time on following pages or people that publish false and misleading information about their personal or social identities. the students academic engagement and student creativity). This may become increasingly important as students are seen to be using social media platforms more than before and social networking is becoming an integral aspect of their lives. That's why we huddle with students across the country to empower them to navigate their social world - including social media and technology - positively. (2014) explored the associations between excessive use of social media and internalizing emotions. Zhang and Bartol (Citation2010, 111) defined intrinsic motivation as the extent to which an individual is inner-directed, is interested in, or fascinated with a task, and engages in it for the sake of the task itself. Psychol. Citation2020; Yu et al. Thus this consideration leads us to assume that cyberbullying may moderate the association between social media utilisation by the students and its encouraging results. Hum. Citation2014). Thus, significantly more research is needed in different contexts and cultures to compare the results. 33, 815828. Citation2019) and creativity (Du et al. Thus, a higher intrinsic motivation is not only associated with the engagement of students and the creativity, but the previous finding have shown the relationship between students intrinsic motivation and many other positive outcomes such as students achievements (Griffin Citation2016) and students success (Augustyniak et al. As students, logically expected, spend more time with their teachers than counselors, they may be better and more receptive to the advice given by the former than the latter. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was formulated and a survey was carried out to collect data from the undergraduate students of different government colleges in Kashmir. This research elucidates that the students social media utilisation for the purposes of learning leads to higher intrinsic motivation, which is consequently related to the engagement and creativity of learners in academia. Institutions, in particular, teach their students to use the latest, popular, and social media tools that can enhance their intrinsic motivation in academic activities. Psychological counseling programs can be initiated at schools or universities to check upon the latest state of students mental and emotional health influenced by the pervasive use of social media. Dumitrache, S. D., Mitrofan, L., and Petrov, Z. Research reveals that cyberbullying resulted in social media targeting the students using social media for academic purposes may decrease their intrinsic motivation (Goodboy, Martin, and Goldman Citation2016). (2020) provided a systematic review of the effect of social media on young and teenage students depression, psychological distress, and anxiety. Results indicate that CR and CA of all the constructs were higher than the threshold value of 0.70, and AVE values were higher than the threshold value of 0.50 as recommended by past studies (Fornell and Larcker Citation1981; Hair et al. 43, 308312. Citation2020), the exchange of ideas (Ahmed et al. There are severe consequences of cyberbullying, which vary from psychological disorders to suicides (Cnat et al. Res. J. Clin. It can be expected that more longitudinal studies in future can show how the continuous use of social media can affect the fluctuations of any of these affective variables during the different academic courses students pass at school or university. PDF A Study on the Impact of Social Media Usage on Student Academic - CORE Researchers believe that when individuals find interest in their work, they become self-motivated and perform better (Menges et al. Distinctiveness of others, mutability of selves: Their impact on self-evaluations. Deng, Wang, and Zhao (Citation2016), argued that environmental factors affect individuals creativity. doi: 10.5455/jmas.236927, Banjanin, N., Banjanin, N., Dimitrijevic, I., and Pantic, I. Dev. Citation2020). life To be specific, this study aims at exploring the kind of social media students are familiar withhow , such social media is used by students of higher institution and the impact it making on their academic life. Am. Citation2015; Yang et al. Why Conduct Social Media Surveys? University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Law, Vietnam. o 16 - 17 o 18 - 19 o 20 - above What is your GWA last school year? Allied Sci. For example, their employment-seeking spirits might lead them to create accounts in many social networks, hoping for a better future. Though most of these studies were correlational, and correlation is not the same as causation, as the studies show that the number of participants experiencing these negative emotions under the influence of social media is significantly high, more extensive research is highly suggested to explore causal effects (Mathewson, 2020). It should be reminded that the alleged socially supportive and communicative promises of the prevalent use of social networking in student life might not be fully realized in practice. ODea, B., and Campbell, A. Why do you use these social networking sites? This stress-provoking effect of social media has been also pinpointed by Weng and Menczer (2015), who contended that social media becomes a main source of stress because people often share all kinds of posts, comments, and stories ranging from politics and economics, to personal and social affairs. Taking up this research gap, we attempt to explore the association among use of social media and its positive consequences, for example, academic engagement and creativity. Citation2020) in academia. Six Questions Could Test For Social Media Addiction Increased social media use linked to developing depression, research finds Six simple screening questions can test for social media addiction, according to James Roberts, PhD, a marketing professor at Baylor Universitys Hankamer School of Business. That is changing as scientists find new tools to answer the question. Citation2019) and motivation (Malik et al. This point should be highlighted that the link between the use of social media and affective states is bi-directional. In recent years, several studies have been conducted to explore the potential effects of social media on students affective traits, such as stress, anxiety, depression, and so on. We tested our hypotheses utilising SPSS PROCESS macros. Copyright 2022 Chen and Xiao. Researchers believe that the exchange of knowledge and networking is the reason why the use of social media enhances individuals creativity and innovation. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2013.785698, Alahmar, A. T. (2016). In their research, the social media resources were found to be stress-inducing for half of the participants, all university students. Behav. Vygotskys mediational theory (see Fernyhough, 2008) can be regarded as a main theoretical background for the support of social media on learners affective states. Mathewson (2020) attributed these divergent positive and negative effects to the different theoretical frameworks adopted in different studies and also the different contexts (different countries with whole different educational systems). Comp. Hu et al. Social Media Usage and Individuals Intentions Toward Adopting Bitcoin: The Role of the Theory of Planned Behavior and Perceived Risk. The higher education population was also studied by Iwamoto and Chun (2020). A depressed or stressed-out mood can follow. The findings reveal a positive link among social media utilisation and the engagement and creativity of higher education students. Some empirical research studies have also found the negative impact of cyberbullying on student engagement (Cross et al. The literature on social media reveals that it has become a hot topic of debate among the scholars of social sciences, including the researchers in the area of management information system (MIS). The indirect effect of the usage of social media by students on creativity is weak at higher level of cyberbullying, i.e. The impact of social media on personal and professional lives: An Adlerian perspective. Along this way, they should be assisted by the family and those in charge at schools or universities, most importantly the teachers. Social media has both, positive and negative effects. Particularly testing in an individualistic culture will be of great interest. Insomnia partially mediated the association between problematic Internet use and depression among secondary school students in China. Student Perceptions of the Impact of Social Media on College Student Stud. XC 2021002). For another, Tang et al. SMSBQ was given to evaluators, counselors and social workers to determine its validity. The existing literature shows that there are some positive and some negative affective impacts. Network. Teachers may not be in full control of their students use of social media, but they have always played an active role in motivating or demotivating students to take particular measures in their academic lives. Psychol. All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. At higher education, students needs are more life-like. 7, 117140. Thailand 98, S81S90. Certainly, the educational space in todays world cannot do without the social media, which has turned into an integral part of everybodys life. at 1 SD above the mean, and at 1 SD below the mean). doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.013, Barry, C. T., Sidoti, C. L., Briggs, S. M., Reiter, S. R., and Lindsey, R. A. These results have supported our moderated mediation hypotheses 3b and 3c. This is an important finding in the era of digital technologies which helps us to understand why and how social media use by students is related to their academic engagement and creativity. Thus, it is necessary to know how the growing usage of social networks is associated with students affective health on different aspects. Cyberbullying is harmful for every segment of individuals, but it is particularly critical for students as they are mostly young and become and easy victims of bullying on the internet (W. M. Al-Rahmi et al. News. It is conjectured that the ubiquitous role of social media in student life establishes unrealistic expectations and promotes continuous comparison as also pinpointed in the Interpretation Comparison Model (Stapel and Koomen, 2000; Stapel, 2007). Our results are in line with student involvement theory (Astin Citation1984) and recent research, which has shown an association among social media utilisation by the students and its positive consequences, such as student creativity and academic performance (Malik et al. This proactive, student-led . 17 Articles, This article is part of the Research Topic, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010766, Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).