Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Students’ Mental Health at University Level

Aqsa Wajid Abbasi; Ayesha Abbasi; Maryam Khan

doi:10.71085/sss.04.01.218

Authors

Aqsa Wajid Abbasi MS Scholar, Department of Education, International Islamic University,Islamabad,Pakistan
Ayesha Abbasi BS Psychology, Department Psychology, Bahria University, Islamabad,Pakistan
Maryam Khan BS Psychology, Department Psychology, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71085/sss.04.01.218

Keywords:

Social media addiction, Relationship, Mental Health, Under-graduate students, Quantitative data

Abstract

Social media has been extremely popular over the last decade. Social media platforms are even moreaccessible 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 addictionamong students with their mental. The aim of the research was to find out the level of addiction of students about social mediause a) c) link between social media addiction andmental health of university students Method:The current study has a correlational design. Under-graduate studentswere used as a sample. Thestudies sample size was 385 It was stratified proportionatesampling technique. SPSS was used for analysis of quantitative data and the percentage was calculated using thedescriptive statistics. The relation between mental health and social media addiction wasanalyzed using Person Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. Positive correlation between social media addiction and mentalhealth of students