SECTION 3

IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON NURSING STUDENTS

Instructions: Please indicate how much you agree with each of the following
statement, according to the following scale:
S. Items Strongly Agree Uncertain Disagree Strongly
No. Social Networking Sites (SNS) Agree Disagree
5 4 3 2 1
1. Purpose of making account in
SNS:
a) To maintain existing
contacts and friends
b) To find new friends
c) To find activity partner
d) Dating
e) To interact with other like-
minded people
2. allows to communicate easily and
effectively
3. helps in reconnecting with lost
friends/old friends
4. Criteria of making friends:
a) Education (Classmates)
b) Based on personal likeness
c) Just to get someone for
chat
5. Activities:
a) Profile setting
b) Photo sharing
c) Easy access to others
profile
d) Uploading status
e) Sharing links
f) Uploading videos
g) Exposure to pornography
6. Allows to connect with more
 people all over the world
7. Helps to contact to people of
different cultures
8. Creates awareness among students
for new trends
9. Creates political awareness among
students
10. Facilitates to search jobs for
students for future
11. Cause of problems and arguments
in relationships
12. Causes conflicts between
relationships
13. Regular use affects friendship

14. People intentionally use SNS to

make others jealous
15. Causes distraction and waste time

16. Helps to establish

identity/personality
17. Friends on SNS are strangers in
real life
18. Effects on relationships with
family are:
a) Spending less time with
parents
b) Spending less time with
brother and sisters
c) Spending less time with
relatives
18. Deteriorates the social norms and
ethics among students
19. Irrelevant and anti-religious posts
and links create hatred among
students
20. Beneficial for low self esteem
students
21. SNS use can help to:
a) Promote education
b) Keep students upto date
with assignments
c) Offer help to students in
need
d) Provide an outlet for
 students to express
themselves in their own
unique ways
e) Show student’s artistic and
musical abilities
f) Obtain information
g) Graduation preparation
h) Future planning
22. Helps to build social capital
23. SNS improves:
a) Language
b) More vocabulary
c) Writing skills
d) Reduces spelling mistakes

24. Posts on SNS helps to reduce

stress
25. SNS makes people compare their
lives with others and causes
restlessness
26. Lead to drug and alcohol addiction

27. More time spent on SNS results

in:
a) Poor academic
performance
b) Difficulty to concentrate
on studies
c) Negative effect on mood
28. Compel students to:
a) Do what everyone else is
doing
b) Attend every event
c) Share every life experience
29. SNS leads to multitasking

30. Use of SNS during late night

causes:
a) Sleep disturbances
 b) Increased risk of anxiety
and depression
c) Tiredness and irritability
31. Facilitates terrorist activities

32. Cyber-bullying can lead to:

a) Embarrassment

b) Feelings of belittlement
c) Low self esteem
d) Suicide
33. Creates a barrier between parent
and child communication
34. Time spent on SNS interferes with
the ability to submit a homework
assignment on time
35. Learning on SNS is more
important than learning at college
36. Membership or making account
on SNS is very important for
students
37. More time is spent on SNS instead
of study and completing
assignments
38. Bridge self esteem deficiency for
students
39. Free of cost apps distract students
from their education
40. Effects of SNS on academic
performance:
a) Very helpful
b) Causes distraction from
studies
c) Performance affected
d) Performance improved

41. Useless information on SNS leads

to:
a) Confusion or doubts in the
mind of students
b) Risk taking behavior
 c) Criminal activities
d) Drug or alcohol addiction
e) Suicidal attempts
42. Use of SNS while doing other
activities can lead to accidents
43. Excessive use of SNS leads to:

a) Increased absenteeism
from classes/clinical area
b) Late comings (after 10am)

c) Habitual absenteeism
44. Students use SNS to :
a) chat even during classes
b) cheat during class tests

c) cheat during exams

45. Academic performance will be

affected as:
a) students don’t submit
requirements on time
b) don’t make assignments

c) not prepared for

exams/class-tests
46. Use of SNS leads to:
a) delaying or skipping of
meals
b) decreased physical
activities
c) decreased involvement in
personal hobbies
d) affects the eyesight of
students
e) neglects hygienic measures

f) illness
g) obesity

47. SNS helps to:

a) provide information to
improve physical health
b) provide guidance about
dietary habits
c) know about exercises and
meditation