TikTok remains the most popular social media platform with millions of users around the world and is also the center of several social studies by scientists. on TikTok in the focus of users The team that made the study this time were researchers from the universities of Trinidad and Tobago.

In their new work with 173 TikTok users, the researchers the most obvious signs of addiction intended to demonstrate. The study, which was conducted by analyzing the data of a total of 354 people, 313 of whom were Facebook users, revealed an important result.

One in three users is at risk of becoming addicted to TikTok:

Users who participated in the survey, have obsessive thoughts about the application, feel the urge to use the application more, use the application to forget about personal problems, do not reduce the use of the application, when the use of the application is prohibited being restless or sad and whether using the app in this way negatively impacts school or work.

With the answers given, 68.2% of the TikTok users who participated in the survey were considered ‘risk-free’ about TikTok addiction. On the other hand, users 25.4% were classified as ‘low risk’ and 6.4% as ‘high risk’. Users in the risk class loneliness and extroversion were found to score higher on the criteria. Moreover female TikTok users It was also revealed that they were more at risk compared to male users.