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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics (N = 598)

From: Associations between social media addiction, psychological distress, and food addiction among Taiwanese university students

 

Mean (SD) or n (%)

Age (year)

22.8 (3.75)

Gender (male)

391 (65.38)

Body mass index (kg/m2)

21.98 (3.71)

Time spend on social media (hrs/day)

3.21 (2.44)

BSMAS score (possible score range: 5–30)

15.90 (4.78)

DASS-21 score (possible score range: 0–126)

26.94 (25.32)

YFAS 2.0 score (possible score range: 0–11)

1.92 (2.99)

  1. BSMAS Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, DASS-21 Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale, YFAS 2.0 Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0