Facebook addiction disorder and sleep quality: Loneliness as a mediator

Abstract

With the popularity of Facebook, researchers began to pay more attention to the problem of Facebook addiction disorder. Facebook addiction disorder was found to be associated high loneliness and poor sleep quality. Using a sample of 211 Vietnamese university students, this study examined the mediating mechanism of the pathway from Facebook addiction disorder to poor sleep quality among university students. The results indicated that loneliness partially mediated the effects of Facebook addiction disorder on sleep quality among Vietnamese university students B =0.040, SE =0.020, CI = [0.002, 0.079].