The relationship between youth dependence on social networking sites and their feelings of depression and future anxiety

The study has aimed to "investigate the relationship between youth dependence on social networking sites and their level of depression and future anxiety". The researcher has used the questionnaire tool applying to (400) respondents from 16 to 45 years who are exposed to social networking sites in their daily lives from various social, cultural and economic levels. The researcher has relied on media dependence theory. 
Main results:
The respondents are always exposed to social networking sites by (83%). They depend on these sites to a large extent by (51.5%) and they have high motives for exposure to social networking sites by (70%).
Respondents prefer to follow many social networking sites in their daily life; WhatsApp comes at the first place by (85.5%), followed by Facebook (85.5%).
The youth prefer to follow their personal pages at the first place by (68%), then their friends’ personal pages by (51.3%).
There is a statistically significant relationship between the rates of youth dependence on social networking sites in their daily lives and their feeling of future anxiety in terms of future life problems, health anxiety, death anxiety, mental anxiety, despair of the future and fear of failure in the future.
There is a statistically significant relationship between the rates of youth dependence on social networking sites in their daily lives and their feeling of depression.