Facebook Addiction and High School Students’ Sleep Quality: The Serial Mediation of Procrastination and Life Satisfaction and the Moderation of Self-Compassion

Abstract

A growing body of research has indicated that Facebook addiction is a salient risk factor for sleep quality among high school students. This study examined whether procrastination and life satisfaction serially mediate the relationship between Facebook addiction and sleep quality and whether this mediating process is moderated by self-compassion. This research uses quantitative research approach to examine Facebook addiction, procrastination, life satisfaction, sleep quality, and self-compassion, in the sample of 280 Vietnamese high school students (M_age = 16.75 years, SD = .0825). Facebook addiction was not significantly associated with sleep quality among high school students. The serial mediator role of procrastination and life satisfaction on the pathway from Facebook addiction to sleep quality was not significant. Moderated mediation analysis further revealed that self-compassion moderated the association between Facebook addiction and high school students’ sleep quality. These findings elucidate the role of Facebook addiction, procrastination, and self-compassion in high school students’ sleep quality. Furthermore, they suggest that self-compassion intervention programs may be promising to reduce procrastination, Facebook addiction, as well as to enhance sleep quality and life satisfaction for high school students.

Keywords:

• Facebook addiction
• life satisfaction
• procrastination
• self-compassion
• sleep quality

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Notes on contributors

Tú Anh Hà

Tu Anh Ha is a lecturer at FPT Hanoi University, Vietnam. She is interested in inclusive education, intercultural education, plurilingual approach, critical literacy and multiple literacies.

Minh Anh Quang Tran

Minh Anh Quang Tran is a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Van Lang University, Vietnam. He is interested in Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Procrastination, Psychological Well-Being, Health Psychology, Social Psychology, and Positive Psychology.

Chun-Yu Lin

Chun-Yu Lin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is interested in fMRI, Learning and Memory, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Procrastination.

Que Ly Nguyen

Que Ly Nguyen is a bachelor in the Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Vietnam. She is interested in Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Social Psychology, and positive psychology.