To sign-up or not to sign-up: Predictors of problematic social media use among emerging adults.
Problematic social media use is inversely correlated with self-esteem of emerging adults. Characteristics of social media usage such as the age at signing up, the number of platforms signed up on and the need for followers significantly predicted problematic social media usage among emerging adults.
Authors
- Sajal Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6487-9681)
- Sheng Yu-qi
- Asha Vashe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-2575)
- Lena Ashok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-3224)
- Sourav Choudhury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-8688)
- Mayuri Banerjee Bhattacharya
- Varalakshmi Chandra Sekaran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-3075)
- A Alagarraj
- Y Elendran
Institutions
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2025-06-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7417/ct.2025.5231
- Primary Topic
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00