Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement

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Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ana Paula
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Nobre, Joana Rita, Luis, Henrique, Luis, Luis Soares, Pinho, Lara Guedes, Albacar-Riobóo, Núria, Sequeira, Carlos
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/44149
Resumo: Abstract: The use of social media was one of the most common way to keep in touch with friends and family during confinement. For higher education students, the fact that their universities were closed was a major change in their lives. The aim of this study is to relate the prevalence and type of social media with Internet addiction and mental health of university students in a district of Portugal during COVID-19 confinement. Mental health was studied by applying the reduced version of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) and to measure the Internet use and dependence, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was used. The study (cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational) used an online questionnaire, conducted on Google® Forms and the link was sent to 4450 students, in the months of April to June 2020, during the confinement. A total of 329 valid questionnaires were obtained. We can conclude that regarding mental health, students in the 18–24 age group, single or divorced and who are not in a relationship, and with worse academic results, show worse levels of mental health. It is noteworthy that the students with the same characteristics also have the highest levels of addiction to internet.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
title Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
spellingShingle Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
Oliveira, Ana Paula
Social media
Internet addiction
Mental health
Higher education students
Confinement
title_short Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
title_full Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
title_fullStr Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
title_full_unstemmed Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
title_sort Social Media Use and Its Association with Mental Health and Internet Addiction among Portuguese Higher Education Students during COVID-19 Confinement
author Oliveira, Ana Paula
author_facet Oliveira, Ana Paula
Nobre, Joana Rita
Luis, Henrique
Luis, Luis Soares
Pinho, Lara Guedes
Albacar-Riobóo, Núria
Sequeira, Carlos
author_role author
author2 Nobre, Joana Rita
Luis, Henrique
Luis, Luis Soares
Pinho, Lara Guedes
Albacar-Riobóo, Núria
Sequeira, Carlos
author2_role author
author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Oliveira, Ana Paula
Nobre, Joana Rita
Luis, Henrique
Luis, Luis Soares
Pinho, Lara Guedes
Albacar-Riobóo, Núria
Sequeira, Carlos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Social media
Internet addiction
Mental health
Higher education students
Confinement
topic Social media
Internet addiction
Mental health
Higher education students
Confinement
description Abstract: The use of social media was one of the most common way to keep in touch with friends and family during confinement. For higher education students, the fact that their universities were closed was a major change in their lives. The aim of this study is to relate the prevalence and type of social media with Internet addiction and mental health of university students in a district of Portugal during COVID-19 confinement. Mental health was studied by applying the reduced version of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) and to measure the Internet use and dependence, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was used. The study (cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational) used an online questionnaire, conducted on Google® Forms and the link was sent to 4450 students, in the months of April to June 2020, during the confinement. A total of 329 valid questionnaires were obtained. We can conclude that regarding mental health, students in the 18–24 age group, single or divorced and who are not in a relationship, and with worse academic results, show worse levels of mental health. It is noteworthy that the students with the same characteristics also have the highest levels of addiction to internet.
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