Online Vigilance and Its Relationship to Digital Stress and Symptoms of Depression

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the nature of the relationship between online vigilance , digital stress and symptoms of depression. Likewise, it detects gender differences in each of online vigilance, digital stress, and symptoms of depression. This is done through a sample of (244) male and female students from regular students in Saudi universities, including (134) males (110) females. The following tools were applied to the study sample:  Online   Vigilance Scale (Attribute), prepared by: (Reinecke et al, 2018) and Online Vigilance Scale (Status) prepared by (Johannes et al,2020), Arabization: Mohamed Abdul Raouf Abd Rabbo, and Digital Stress Meter (Prepared by (Fisher.R&Riedel,2021) Arabization: Mohamed Abdul Raouf Abd Rabbo, and the Aaron Beck Depression Scale translated by Abdul Sattar Ibrahim. One of the most important results of the study was the existence of a statistically significant correlation between online vigilance and both digital stress and depression symptoms. Also, there were no statistically significant differences between the sexes in each of online vigilance, digital stress, and depression symptoms, and online vigilance contributed to predicting both digital stress and depression symptoms.