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 Volume 8, Issue 9 (September 2021), Pages: 112-118

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Impact of problematic Facebook use, loneliness, and poor sleep quality on mental health

 Author(s): Thi Truc Quynh Ho 1, *, Son Van Huynh 2, Vinh-Long Tran-Chi 3

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Psychology–Education, University of Education, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam
 2Educational Psychology Research Group, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
 3Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7119-7125

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.09.015

 Abstract:

To examine the effects of problematic Facebook use, loneliness, and poor sleep quality on anxiety and depression in the Vietnamese, 354 Facebook users at a university in central Vietnam in a cross-sectional study design was used. Participants completed Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, UCLA loneliness scale version 3, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Linear regression analysis found that problematic Facebook use, loneliness, and poor sleep quality respectively explained 31.3% and 45.6% of the variance in anxiety and depression. Problematic Facebook use, loneliness, and poor sleep quality were associated with anxiety and depression. Interventions should focus on reducing loneliness, improving sleep quality, and treating problematic Facebook use. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Problematic Facebook use, Loneliness, Poor sleep quality, Mental health, Vietnamese

 Article History: Received 5 April 2021, Received in revised form 27 June 2021, Accepted 27 June 2021

 Acknowledgment 

The author would like to thank the participants who accepted the questionnaires to complete this study.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Ho TTQ, Huynh SV, and Chi VLT (2021). Impact of problematic Facebook use, loneliness, and poor sleep quality on mental health. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(9): 112-118

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