Social Media Addiction and Its Impact on Mental Health Among Adolescents

Abstract

Most individuals now use social media on a daily basis. Individuals of all ages utilise social media platforms like as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter for communication and networking, with Indians spending an average of 2.4 hours a day on social media alone. Young people aged 18 to 24 spend a lot of time on these apps, with Facebook and Instagram alone having 97.2 million and 69 million users from this age bracket in India. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Around 85 per cent of Indian children have reported being cyberbullied as well as having cyberbullied someone else at rates well over twice the international average. Cyberbullying is an alarming issue. The present investigates the relationship between social media addiction and its impact on mental health among adolescents. The study was conducted among 100 adolescents in the Coimbatore city. The standardized tools were used in the study. The statistical analysis were used to analysis the data. Based on the finding from the research study, it is concluded that majority of students has been affected by social media addiction and has various negative psychological impact on the adolescents.