Social-Media Addiction Among Late Adolescents: Self-Esteem and Narcissism as Predictor

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social-media addiction, Adolescene, Self-esteem, Narcissism

Abstract

Social media addiction is the compulsive behavior in the use of social media so that it becomes the symptom of addictive behavior. Adolescents is one of the biggest users of social media and smartphones. This study was conducted to examine the effect of self-esteem and narcissism on social-media addiction among late adolescents. Participants who took part in this study were 374 people as active users of social media and at least use social media for more than 2 hours per day. The measuring instruments used are the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-Likert, and the Bergen Social-Media Addiction Scale. To prove the hypothesis, we used multiple linear regression analysis technique. The results show that there is a significant influence on self-esteem and narcissism on social media addiction among late adolescents, with the contribution of 11.3% from the two variables, namely self-esteem and narcissism on social-media addiction among late adolescents (R2 = 0.113, p = 0.00, < 0.05).

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zoya Zurafa
AU  - Fransisca Iriani R. Dewi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - Social-Media Addiction Among Late Adolescents: Self-Esteem and Narcissism as Predictor
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1444
EP  - 1449
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.227
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.227
ID  - Zurafa2021
ER  -