Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of excessive social media use on
individual job performance and its exact mechanism. An extended stressor–strain–outcome …

There is increasing evidence that low family socioeconomic status (SES) not only is a social
issue, but also is a precursor to addiction to social media and other technologies. The …

Some anecdotal accounts and research reports have suggested that obsessive social media
involvement could turn into a compulsive behavior among university students. Unfortunately …

In China, the number of college students using mobile phone based messaging and social
networking applications like WeChat is increasing rapidly. However, there has been minimal …

Microblogging on sites like Twitter is a growing and popular trend among young people.
Apparently, some users of these microblogs exhibit addiction-like symptoms. Until recently …

This article reviewed research studies on social media misuse (SMM), including diverse
measurements, consequences caused by SMM, and its predictive factors. SMM measuring …

Drawing on scan-and-shift hypothesis and scattered attention hypothesis, this article
attempted to explore the association between excessive social media use (ESMU) and …

Research trying to understand individual difference in the use of different social networking
sites (SNSs) is minimal. In the present study, we collected data from 714 college students in …

This study is focused on investigating the negative consequences of social media usage at
work through overloads that are a cause of exhaustion and ultimately impact performance …

Social media addiction is the emerging occurrence in which individuals develop
psychological dependencies on microblog, wechat, Tik Tok and so on. Existing research has …