The Level of Compulsive Digital Hoarding among Students at Yarmouk and Sultan Qaboos Universities and its Relationship to Some Variables

The study aimed to identify the level of digital compulsive hoarding among students at Yarmouk University and Sultan Qaboos University, and to determine whether there were statistically significant differences based on variables such as gender, college, and university. To achieve the study's objectives, The Compulsive Digital Hoarding Scale, prepared by Helmy and Hanfy (2023), was applied to a sample of (1037) male and female students. The data were statistically processed by calculating the arithmetic means, standard deviations, and conducting a Multivariate Three-Way Analysis of Variance (Three-Way MANOVA). The results showed that the level of digital compulsive hoarding among students was moderate. The findings indicated differences in the study sample's estimates of the level of digital compulsive hoarding in the areas of "accumulation of saved digital possessions in memory, difficulty in accessing them, and emotions associated with deleting digital possessions" based on gender, favoring males. Additionally, differences were found in the areas of "tendency to retain digital possessions and avoid discarding them, and the negative impacts of digital possessions on individual behavior" favoring Sultan Qaboos University, and in emotions associated with deleting digital possessions, based on university, favoring Yarmouk University. There were no differences based on the college variable.