TY - JOUR
T1 - Social network sites and obsessive-compulsive disorder
T2 - An investigation with suppression analyses
AU - Lee, Soon L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2007-2021 Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This research examined the relationship between social network site (SNS) intensity, SNS addiction, and the severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), alongside its factors of obsession and compulsion. The overlap of SNS intensity and SNS addiction was controlled in the study to predict the measured severity of OCD. In this study, 204 Malaysian undergraduate students were recruited to complete the revised Facebook Intensity Scale, the revised Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, and the self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. The overlap of SNS intensity and SNS addiction was supported by their significant positive correlation. Furthermore, SNS addiction significantly correlated with the measured OCD and its corresponding factors. The hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the entry of SNS intensity enhanced the facilitative effect of SNS addiction on OCD and its factors. Therefore, the role of SNS intensity as a suppressor was supported. In the same regression model, SNS intensity predicted the severity of OCD and its compulsion subscale negatively. Implications and directions for future research were also discussed in this manuscript.
AB - This research examined the relationship between social network site (SNS) intensity, SNS addiction, and the severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), alongside its factors of obsession and compulsion. The overlap of SNS intensity and SNS addiction was controlled in the study to predict the measured severity of OCD. In this study, 204 Malaysian undergraduate students were recruited to complete the revised Facebook Intensity Scale, the revised Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, and the self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. The overlap of SNS intensity and SNS addiction was supported by their significant positive correlation. Furthermore, SNS addiction significantly correlated with the measured OCD and its corresponding factors. The hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the entry of SNS intensity enhanced the facilitative effect of SNS addiction on OCD and its factors. Therefore, the role of SNS intensity as a suppressor was supported. In the same regression model, SNS intensity predicted the severity of OCD and its compulsion subscale negatively. Implications and directions for future research were also discussed in this manuscript.
KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW - Social network sites addiction
KW - Social network sites intensity suppression analyses
KW - Suppression effects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105433357&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5817/CP2021-2-5
DO - 10.5817/CP2021-2-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105433357
VL - 15
JO - Cyberpsychology: journal of psychosocial research in cyberspace
JF - Cyberpsychology: journal of psychosocial research in cyberspace
SN - 1802-7962
IS - 2
M1 - 5
ER -