مجلة الواحات للبحوث و الدراسات
Volume 14, Numéro 1, Pages 1474-1499
2021-06-24

Social Networking Sites Use Addiction And Its Relationship With Social Alienation Among University Students,the (facebook Use As A Model)

Authors : Kiouas Rebiha . ‏ Kaddouri Youcef‏ .

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the nature of the relationship between social networking sites use addiction,the facebook as a model,and social alienation,and the level of both facebook use addiction and social alienation among a sample of 210 students of Ghardaia University users of facebook,chosen by snow ball sampling method.It was used Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS), and Travis’s Alienation Scale (1993).The study results have shown that there is a positive correlation between facebook use addiction and social alienation,a high level of facebook use addiction and an average level of social alienation.

Keywords

social networking sites ; facebook use addiction ; social alienation ; Ghardaia University students users of facebook