Investigating the role of social network addiction in predicting adolescents academic self-efficacy

Niloofar Mikaeili¹ Ali Salmani² Masoomeh Zarrabi³

1) Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh University, Ardabil, Iran.
2) Master of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.
3) Master of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.

IOI Code : XEBH-HZFDH
Publication : 2nd National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents(cpcauma2.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social media addiction in predicting the academic self-efficacy of high school students in the second year of Ardabil city. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation and its statistical population included all high school students who were studying in 1400 and the sample size of 100 people was selected by available sampling. Scherrer Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and Kimberly Young Internet Addiction Questionnaire were used to collect data. Pearson correlation analysis and multivariate regression were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between social network addiction (R = -0.230) and academic self-efficacy (P <0.05). The results of regression analysis also showed that the predictor variable of social network addiction has the ability to predict the variable of students academic self-efficacy. In summary, the results of this study can be inferred that addiction to social networks has a negative and significant relationship with academic self-efficacy.

Keywords : social network addiction academic self efficacy students