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Social Media Use, Media Literacy, and Anxiety in First-Year College Students

Dalpiaz, Anthony
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1597137716516134

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2020, Specialist in Education (Ed.S.), University of Dayton, School Psychology.
Anxiety is on the rise in the world today. The American College Health Association (2018) surveyed 31,463 college students and found that 60.9% of the respondents had experienced overwhelming anxiety at some point within the last 12 months. Social media use has become more and more rampant, with research suggesting that the majority of people in the United States use social media in some form. Media literacy, which incorporates the ability to critically assess and interpret digital content, is a topic are that is increasingly becoming of interest with the pervasiveness of technology. The present study examined the relationship between social media use, media literacy, and anxiety in first-year college students. A sample of (n = 82) first-year college students was surveyed to investigate these variables. Results indicated a significant relationship between social media use and anxiety as well as between social media use and media literacy. No significant relationship was found between media literacy and anxiety. Implications for how educational professionals can serve students based on these results are discussed in this paper.
Elana Bernstein, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Sawyer Hunley, Dr. (Committee Co-Chair)
Ronda Scantlin, Dr. (Committee Co-Chair)
58 p.
Behavioral Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Continuing Education; Counseling Psychology; Curricula; Demographics; Developmental Psychology; Early Childhood Education; Education; Educational Evaluation; Educational Psychology; Educational Sociology; Educational Tests and Measurements; Elementary Education; Higher Education; Mental Health; Psychological Tests; Psychology; Quantitative Psychology; Social Psychology; Social Research
social media, social media use, anxiety, media literacy, college students, undergraduate students, media literacy scale, quantitative survey, adult manifest anxiety scale, AMAS, worry, social media literacy, fear of missing out

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  • Dalpiaz, A. (2020). Social Media Use, Media Literacy, and Anxiety in First-Year College Students [Electronic thesis or dissertation, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1597137716516134

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dalpiaz, Anthony. Social Media Use, Media Literacy, and Anxiety in First-Year College Students. 2020. University of Dayton, Electronic thesis or dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1597137716516134.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dalpiaz, Anthony. "Social Media Use, Media Literacy, and Anxiety in First-Year College Students." Electronic thesis or dissertation, University of Dayton, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1597137716516134

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