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Social Media Addiction: A Review on Scale Development

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  • Natasha Saqib
  • Faseeh Amin

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This work endeavours to present the important measures of social media addiction in the existing academic literature. It outlines the evolution of social media addiction measures in the last 10 years from specific to broader platforms. It discusses the important works and postulations referring to the concerned topic. This work also offers suggestions to future scholars on eliminating the deficiencies in the existing scales on social media addiction. It also offers directions on testing the existing scales in different regions of the world.

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  • Natasha Saqib & Faseeh Amin, 2022. "Social Media Addiction: A Review on Scale Development," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 47(3), pages 350-360, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:manlab:v:47:y:2022:i:3:p:350-360
    DOI: 10.1177/0258042X221091657
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