Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching

The rising trend of disordered eating globally and also in Malaysia has led to a number of research that is investigating the factors associated with disordered eating attitude. These factors are social media addiction and psychological illness. Methodology: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional...

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Main Author:	lzzaty, Hamidi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	RA Public aspects of medicine
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spelling	my-unimas-ir.377362023-06-26T03:38:44Z Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching 2020 lzzaty, Hamidi RA Public aspects of medicine The rising trend of disordered eating globally and also in Malaysia has led to a number of research that is investigating the factors associated with disordered eating attitude. These factors are social media addiction and psychological illness. Methodology: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study that determines the relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in private Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs). Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among the respondents. Data was entered and analysed using SPSS version 22. Results: A total of 229 respondents have participated in this study. There is positive correlation between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude. The multiple regression analysis have identified social media addiction (r=0.241, p <0.05) and psychological illness (r=0.271, p<0.05) as significant predictors to disordered eating attitude. This 2-factor model could only explained 8.1 % total variance of disordered eating attitude. The psychological illness is found to have partial mediating effect on the relationship between social media addiction and disordered eating attitude because both direct effect (coefficient C'= 0.16, p<0.01) and indirect effect (coefficient A= 0.17, p<0.01 and coefficient B= 0.27, p<0.01) are significant Conclusion: Social media addiction and psychological illness are significant predictors to disordered eating attitude. Psychological illness has a partial mediating effect between social media addiction and disordered eating attitude. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2020 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37736/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37736/1/IZZATY%20%2824%20pgs%29.pdf text en public http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37736/4/Izzaty%20H.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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language	English English
topic	RA Public aspects of medicine
spellingShingle	RA Public aspects of medicine lzzaty, Hamidi Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
description	The rising trend of disordered eating globally and also in Malaysia has led to a number of research that is investigating the factors associated with disordered eating attitude. These factors are social media addiction and psychological illness. Methodology: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study that determines the relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in private Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs). Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among the respondents. Data was entered and analysed using SPSS version 22. Results: A total of 229 respondents have participated in this study. There is positive correlation between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude. The multiple regression analysis have identified social media addiction (r=0.241, p <0.05) and psychological illness (r=0.271, p<0.05) as significant predictors to disordered eating attitude. This 2-factor model could only explained 8.1 % total variance of disordered eating attitude. The psychological illness is found to have partial mediating effect on the relationship between social media addiction and disordered eating attitude because both direct effect (coefficient C'= 0.16, p<0.01) and indirect effect (coefficient A= 0.17, p<0.01 and coefficient B= 0.27, p<0.01) are significant Conclusion: Social media addiction and psychological illness are significant predictors to disordered eating attitude. Psychological illness has a partial mediating effect between social media addiction and disordered eating attitude.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	lzzaty, Hamidi
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title	Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
title_short	Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
title_full	Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
title_fullStr	Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching
title_sort	relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in kuching
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
granting_department	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
publishDate	2020
url	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37736/1/IZZATY%20%2824%20pgs%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37736/4/Izzaty%20H.pdf
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Relationship between social media addiction, psychological illness and disordered eating attitude among college youth in Kuching

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