The main purposes of this study were: to profile the usage of, and confidence in, social media as study sources among undergraduate students for academic purposes and to compare the level of usage of, and confidence in, social media with other study sources. A cross-sectional survey about educational sources and social media usage and confidence, composed of eight items with closed-end-type Likert scale responses (1 to 5 points), was answered by 406 Brazilian physical education undergraduate students (236 men and 170 women) recruited from two public universities. Of these students, 98.3% used social media. Social media (median: 3), books (median: 4), scientific articles in Portuguese (median: 4) and blogs/websites (median: 4) obtained similar usage scores (p > 0.05) but higher (p < 0.05) than other study sources. Books (median: 5) and scientific articles (median: 5) obtained a similar confidence score (p > 0.05) but higher (p < 0.05) than social media. Social media presented widespread usage as study sources despite the lower level of confidence attributed to them.

这项研究的主要目的是：为了学术目的，在大学生中描述社交媒体作为学习来源的使用和信心，并将社交媒体与其他学习来源的使用和信心水平进行比较。由406名巴西体育本科生（236名男性和170名女性）回答了有关教育资源，社交媒体使用和自信心的横断面调查，该调查由八项带有封闭式李克特量表的回答（1-5分）组成。 ）从两所公立大学招募。在这些学生中，98.3％使用了社交媒体。社交媒体（中位数：3），书籍（中位数：4），葡萄牙语的科学文章（中位数：4）和博客/网站（中位数：4）获得了相似的使用评分（p  > 0.05），但得分更高（p <0.05）。书籍（中位数：5）和科学文章（中位数：5）获得了相似的置信度得分（p> 0.05），但高于社交媒体（p <0.05）。尽管归因于社交媒体的信任度较低，但社交媒体仍被广泛用作研究来源。