Effect of Binge-watching Behaviour on Mental Well-being, Loneliness, Sleep and Aggression Among Netflix Users

Binge watching can also be called binge viewing, marathon viewing. Binge watching is basically watching television or other entertainment material for a long time at once. The main purpose of the research was to investigate the relationship between Binge watching, Sleep, Aggression, Loneliness and Mental welling due to the use social Netflix among the university students. It was hypothesized that there exists relationship between Binge watching, Sleep, Aggression, Loneliness and Mental welling. Pearson product-moment was used to check the relationship between variables. The sample comprised of 291 students from different universities of Pakistan. The age range of the sample is 18-25 with (M=24.81, SD=2.67) . English version of the Binge-Watching scale Sleep, Aggression and Mental Wellbeing scale were used. Different analysis was applied which are Pearson correlation, regression, psychometric analysis and t-test. The correlational analysis shows that binge watching only significantly positively correlate with aggression while have negatively relationship with all other variables. Sleep has significant negative relationship with aggression. Aggression has strong negative relationship with mental wellbeing and weak negative relationship with aggression. Loneliness has strong significance relationship with mental well binge. T-test shows that there is no significant provincial differences between men and women. Since all their significant values were > 0.5.