Social Media Addiction and Cognitive Behavioral Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls: A Cross‐Sectional Study.

Sönmez Sari, Ebru; Terzi, Handan; Şahin, Didem

Objective: To measure a multivariate analysis of social media addiction and cognitive‐behavioral physical activity associated with several sociodemographic characteristics in adolescent girls. Design and Methods: A cross‐sectional study. The sample consisted of adolescent girls studying in a vocational high‐school in the Middle‐Black‐Sea region in Türkiye (n = 333). A questionnaire, Social Media Addiction Scale‐for‐Adolescents (SMAS‐A), and Cognitive‐Behavioral Physical Activity Questionnaire (CBPAQ) were used to collect the data. Results: The mean age was 15.35 (SD = 1.15), and 29.4% were the ninth‐class students. Of the adolescent girls, 85.9% were social‐media users, 59.8% used the internet 2‐hours‐or‐more/daily, 67.9% declared themselves as moderately‐active. The mean scores of the SMAS‐A and the CBPAQ were 3.40 (SD = 1.61) and 21.03 (SD = 7.64), respectively. There was a significantly‐negative correlation between cognitive‐behavioral physical activity and social‐media addiction levels. The One‐Way MANOVA results showed significant differences in the academic level, family income, mother education, and physical activity measurement application usage affected to cognitive‐behavioral physical activity. Social media usage habit affected to the social media addiction level. Conclusions: Daily internet usage time and self‐declared physical activity level were the mutually affected factors. School nurses should act to improve healthy social media usage habits to promote well‐being and encourage the positive attitudes towards regular physical activity in this population.

TURKEY; SOCIAL media; INTERNET addiction; CROSS-sectional method; VOCATIONAL education; WOMEN; INCOME; HIGH school students; QUESTIONNAIRES; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; MIDDLE school students; ONE-way analysis of variance; ANALYSIS of variance; COGNITIVE therapy; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; PHYSICAL activity; EDUCATIONAL attainment; ADOLESCENCE

Public Health Nursing, 2025, Vol 42, Issue 1, p61

0737-1209

Academic Journal

10.1111/phn.13446