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

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

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Social Sciences Spectrum
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2025-02-16
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https://doi.org/10.71085/sss.04.01.218
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Impact of Technology on Adolescents
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Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Students’ Mental Health at University Level

Aazam Abbasi, Maryam Khan, Amir Reza Kamel Abbasi
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Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Students’ Mental Health at University Level

Aazam Abbasi, Maryam Khan, Amir Reza Kamel Abbasi
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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

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