Relationship between social media addiction and students’ mental health at university level
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https://doi.org/10.71085/sss.04.01.218Keywords:
Social media addiction, Relationship, Mental Health, Under-graduate studentsAbstract
Social media has been extremely popular over the last decade. Social media platforms are even more accessible to users which then lead to excessive usage named as social media addiction. Thus, the objectives of present study were to explore association of social media addiction among students with their mental. The aim of the research was to find out the level of addiction of students about social media use a) c) link between social media addiction and mental health of university students Method: The current study has a correlational design. Under-graduate students were used as a sample. The studies sample size was 385 It was stratified proportionate sampling technique. SPSS was used for analysis of quantitative data and the percentage was calculated using the descriptive statistics. The relation between mental health and social media addiction was analyzed using Person Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. Positive correlation between social media addiction and mental health of students.
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