Effect Of Self-Management Technique in Reducing Excessive Social Media Usage Among Federal University Students in Southern Nigeria
| Main Authors: | Prof. G. C. Unachukwu, Iweanya, Emeka Nkem |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5481732 |
Daftar Isi:
- The study was carried out to investigate the effect of self-management technique in reducing excessive social media usage among federal university students in southern Nigeria. Two research questions and research hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a quasi- experimental pretest, posttest and control group research design. The population comprised of 928 first and second year federal university students from guidance and counselling department across the eight (8) federal universities in Southern Nigeria who offered guidance and counseling at the undergraduate level and sample size comprised of 65 first year and second year students from two federal universities in Nigeria who had the highest number of excessive social media users. The social media disorder scale (SMD) developed by Eijnden, Lemmen and Valkenburg (2016) was used to obtain data used in answering the research questions and testing the hypotheses. The null hypotheses were tested using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that self-management technique was effective in reducing students’ excessive social media. The finding also showed that Self-management technique is more effective in reducing female students’ excessive usage of social media. Based on the findings, this study therefore recommended that Self-management strategies and techniques should be adopted by students to help them monitor and observe their social media usage which would enable them control themselves when their online presence and activities are becoming problematic. This intervention will help students focus more on academic activities and be able to achieve academic excellence rather than while away most of their time on social media networks. The study further suggested for more studies to be conducted using the technique to checkmate excessive social media use in other schools and related organizations.