Mobile usage, shopping behaviour and study habit as contributing factors to depression, anxiety and stress
The scenarios of students psychological breakdown have been more prevalentnowadays. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of particular factors ofbehavioural aspects namely mobile usage, shopping behaviour and study habit, onnegative emotional states specifically depression, anxiety and s...
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| Format: | thesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2020
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| Summary: | The scenarios of students psychological breakdown have been more prevalentnowadays. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of particular factors ofbehavioural aspects namely mobile usage, shopping behaviour and study habit, onnegative emotional states specifically depression, anxiety and stress among universitystudents. The study employed survey design in which faculties and departments inSultan Idris Education University were stratified and purposive sampling wereemployed to obtain a total of 377 students as respondents of the study. Respondentsage ranged between 18 to 27 years old and most of them are females. The researchinstrument consisting of a questionnaire packet of Mobile Phone InvolvementQuestionnaire (MPIQ), Buying Impulsiveness Scale, Study Habits Questionnaire andDepression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21). Three standard multiple regressionanalysis were conducted to measure predicting value of dependent variables and study habit( = -.22; p = .01) was found to be a significant contributing factor to depressionamong university students. Besides that, shopping behavior ( = .34; p = .01) andstudy habit ( = -.17; p = .01) were significant contributing factor to anxiety whereas,mobile usage ( = .41, p = .01) and study habit ( = -.16, p = .01) were significantcontributing factors to stress among university students. All of the significantindependent variables were found to bring the highest contribution to stress (R2= .21),followed by anxiety (R2 = .17) and lastly depression (R2 = .08). In conclusion,students who practiced high mobile usage and shopping behaviour and poor studyhabit are prone to experience negative emotional states such as depression, anxietyand stress. Strategies focusing on improving behaviours such as action by educationauthorities to emphasis on healthy lifestyle behaviours should be conducted toincrease awareness how depression, anxiety and stress can affect students quality oflife. |
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