The Impact of Social Networks on Academic Achievement of Students: A Case Study of Badakhshan University Students

Ahmad Fazayel FAZLOOMAND

doi:10.55544/ijrah.3.2.34

Authors

Ahmad Fazayel FAZLOOMAND Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Badakhshan University, AFGHANISTAN.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.3.2.34

Keywords:

Academic achievement, social network, social media addiction, Badakhshan University

Abstract

Due to the increasing expansion of using social networks among people particularly students, the research in this field is a necessitate. This study aims to examine the impact of using social networks on the academic achievement of male students at Badakhshan University. The data for this research gathered through random sampling of 100 students of Badakhshan University who currently study in the academic years of 2022-2023. The students GPAs of past semester taken as the base to analyze the impact of social network usage and its effect on academic achievement, through which questionnaire designed. The data has been analyzed in SPSS applying one-way ANOVA. There are significant difference between the number of academic achievement of normal users of social network (with 15/13average and 2/01standerd deviation) and students with social media addiction (with 4/84average and 1/27standerd deviation) (p<0.01/0.05). Spending too much time on social media causes a decline in the hours of studying and exhaustion of students in the class. Therefore, it will affect the academic achievement to decline.

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