The Effect of Facebook Addiction on Palestinian Families Relationships: Arabic Version of Bergan Facebook Addiction Scale

Hala Mutie Yousef  Diebes

doi:10.35516/hum.v50i6.39

Authors

Hala Mutie Yousef Diebes Faculty of Graduate Study, Arab American University, Jenin, West Bank, Palestine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-4037

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i6.39

Keywords:

Facebook addiction, family’s relationship, marital relationship, parental relationship, child relationship

Abstract

Objectives: The Study aims to explore the impact of the Facebook addiction on Palestinian family’s relationship. It also aimed to investigate whether there were gender differences and different age groups within Facebook addiction.

Methods: The sample consist of 220 Facebook users from different families in Jenin area in Palestine, selected by using a convenient sampling technique depending on Slovins’s formula. Data was collected by a questionnaire. The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale was employed to investigate Facebook addiction among Palestinian’s families. Scale asks participants to respond to six criteria, choosing one for each 5-point scale criterion ranging from (1 = Very rarely, to 5 = Very often). Answering “Often” or “Very often” to four of the six criteria is an indicator of Facebook Addiction. The Pearson Chi-Square test used to examine the impact between Facebook addiction and family relationships, child relationship, parental relationship, and marital relationship.

Results: Showed a significant association between Facebook addiction and family relationship, child relationship, parental relationship, and marital relationship. The most significant impact was on parental and marital relationships. Results also showed that Facebook addiction was significantly correlated with the excessive usage of Facebook; more than one quarter of the whole sample (27.7%) who excessively used Facebook were addicted to Facebook. The younger age group was most addicted and there was no gender difference in Facebook Addiction.

Conclusions: Excessive usage of Facebook leads to Facebook addiction, and Facebook addiction has a severe impact on Family bonds.

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