Can Social Media be Used to Control Academic Stress? An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

The present study was conducted aiming at investigating the effect of social media-based intervention according to Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) control academic stress students. This comes in two descriptive and quasi-experimental sections Academic Year 2018–19. In order determine planned behavioral constructs on levels, 320 quasiexperimental organized a educational TPB 180 Data collection through questionnaires personal information, Gadzella’s Student-Life Stress Inventory, researcher-made questionnaire based TPB, with confirmed validity reliability. predicted 15.1% variance among students perceived construct had most significant (p < 0.001). mean score knowledge subject norms experimental group significantly increased during 0.05). media could reduce students’ some extent lead student’s development.