The relationship between social networking addiction and academic performance in Iranian students of

medical sciences: a cross-sectional study | BMC Psychology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

(2019) Seyyed Mohsen Azizi, Ali Sorouch & Alireza Khatony

The level of social networking addiction of the students was moderate, and male students had a higher
level of addiction to social networking than female students. A significant and negative relationship was
found between the social networking addiction and GPA. Considering the negative effects of social
networking on students’ academic performance, the issue of addiction to social networking should be
comprehensively reviewed and considered. Also, appropriate planning should be made to prevent
addiction to social networking, control its use, and increase the opportunities and reduce the threats of
this tool. In this regard, allocating some of the research priorities to the positive and negative
applications of social media at individual, social and academic levels can be beneficial. Given the
importance of addiction to social networking and its potentially destructive impact on students’
academic performance, similar studies are recommended in other universities and in different fields to
obtain a more conclusive result. In this regard, the use of mix methods can help to better understand the
phenomenon of addiction to social networking and its relationship with the academic performance of
students.

IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned (mdpi.com)

(2017) Daria J. Kuss and Mark D. Griffiths

This paper has outlined ten lessons learned from recent empirical literature on online social networking
and addiction. Based on the presented evidence, the way forward in the emerging research field of social
networking addiction requires the establishment of consensual nosological precision, so that both
researchers and clinical practitioners can work together and establish productive communication
between the involved parties that enable reliable and valid assessments of SNS addiction and associated
behaviors (e.g., problematic mobile phone use), and the development of targeted and specific treatment
approaches to ameliorate the negative consequences of such disorders.

(2018)

Social networking sites addiction and adolescent depression: A moderated mediation model of
rumination and self-esteem - ScienceDirect

In summary, the present study indicates that SNS addiction can be a risk factor for adolescent
depression. Further, the mediation analysis reveals that rumination can be one possible mechanism
underlying this relation. Besides, moderated mediation analysis reveals that self-esteem buffers the
relation between rumination and adolescent depression, with the effect between rumination and
depression being stronger for adolescents with a low level of self-esteem.