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Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar Campus, Malaysia  \nORCID: 0000-0003-0991-1313  \nJie Yeng Hue  \nUniversiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar Campus, Malaysia  \nORCID: 0000-0001-7848-7822  \nBernie Zi Ru Wong  \nUniversiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar Campus, Malaysia  \nORCID: 0000-0002-7318-6542  \nSin Jie Goh  \nUniversiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar Campus, Malaysia  \nORCID: 0000-0003-1855-1567  \nReceived: 13 Dec 2020 Accepted: 19 May 2021  \nAbstract  \nThe excessive use of social media is prevalent among undergraduates. Dark triad personality is one of the significant predictors of social media addiction, but inconsistent findings were reported. This study adopted the personality-coping-outcome theory as a framework to examine whether coping strategies mediate the effects of dark triad personality on social media addiction. The purposive sampling method was used to recruit 219 undergraduates for a survey. The results showed that only narcissism is associated with social media addiction, and only avoidance coping strategy mediated the effects of pathology on social media addiction. It is suggested a complete theory is required to explain the relationships between dark triad personality and social media addiction, and a coping scale to be developed to cover the coping strategies that fit dark triad personality.  \nKeywords: social media addiction, Dark Triad, coping strategies, Machiavellianism, narcissism, pathology  \nINTRODUCTION  \nSocial media channels on the Internet, allowing users to share with others online with Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube, or Instagram (Carr & Hayes, 2015) . Through social media, people can create profiles and access various platforms and devices to engage in multiple social activities such as file sharing, chatting, and online gaming (Bányai et al., 2017) . The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (2018) reported that Internet users’ most common activities were visiting social networking platforms. The two most popular communication and social networking platforms were WhatsApp and Facebook.  \nStudies found that social media addiction was prevalent among generation Z (1991 and after), as technology advancement emerged when they were born (PrakashYadav & Rai, 2017) . Social media addiction is defined as an uncontrollable motivation to be involved in social media activities. It drives the individual to feel a need  \nto engage in social media for a sense of satisfaction regardless of the time and effort spent (Schou Andreassen & Pallesen, 2014) . People addicted to social media frequently feel the need to regularly check their social media accounts to avoid seclusion (Afacan & Ozbek, 2019) . They cannot control their urge to log in to their social media accounts to feel satisfaction (Hou et al., 2019) .  \nThe high social media addiction among undergraduates can be because this generation is equipped with better literacy skills than other generations. They might be more vulnerable to being addicted to social media and thus affect their academic studies (Afacan & Ozbek, 2019) . Thatcher et al. (2008) suggested that undergraduates are more likely to be attracted by pleasurable experiences brought by social media, such as playing games and watching videos. Reinecke et al. (2018) also claimed that as the Internet offers users high autonomy, opportunities for identity exploration, and a space free of parental control, undergraduates may find that the Internet is highly appealing and become addicted to social media.  \nMamun and Griffiths (2019) conducted a study in Hungarian, and they found that out of six thousand teenagers, four percent of teenagers were addicted to social media. However, Mahamid and Berte (2019) surveyed 744 Palestine university students and found that about seventy-four percent were addicted to social media. Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (2018) also reported","cbCaiaeupej212nq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaeupej212nq","pdf",409948,12,"English","# Introduction\n## Dark triad personality and social media addiction\n## Social media addiction definitions and prevalence\n## Negative outcomes and study motivation\n## Dark triad traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy","[{\"question\":\"What framework does the study use to examine coping and addiction?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses the personality-coping-outcome theory to test whether coping strategies mediate the effects of dark triad personality on social media addiction.\"},{\"question\":\"How many undergraduates participated, and how were they recruited?\",\"answer\":\"The study recruited 219 undergraduates using purposive sampling for a survey.\"},{\"question\":\"Which dark triad trait and which coping strategy were linked to social media addiction?\",\"answer\":\"Only narcissism was associated with social media addiction, and only avoidance coping strategy mediated the effects of pathology on social media addiction.\"}]","Dark Triad and Social Media Addiction among Undergraduates: Coping Strategy as a Mediator | PDF",1792090013]