Impact of social media on mental health of adolescents

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Jesmin Sultana

Adolescents, Mental health, Media, Social media

This study has been undertaken to explore the mental health awareness and knowledge among adolescents, also to study the positive and negative impact of social media on mental health of adolescents. In this era of information and technological advancement, where social media plays an important role. Although social media has some good intentions connecting with people all around the world, but there are also negative consequences of endless scrolling. Social media addiction is very dangerous for both the mental health and physical health of adolescents. They use social media to find community, but their mental health is often negatively affected by this culture of comparison. The adolescents has need to utilize the positive impact and minimize the negative impact of social media. This study is also tries to provide suggestive measure to reduce negative impact of social media on mental health of adolescents. In this study descriptive survey method was used. As a sample 30 adolescents under age group 14-16 years old had been selected for the study who used social media on regular basis more than two hours. The findings of this study is that most adolescents have general knowledge about mental health and they are aware of it. Some adolescents has problems like low self-esteem by comparing themselves with their peers, sleeplessness, stress for not getting enough likes etc. Also most adolescents also confirms that social media is a powerful tool for communication, education and entertainment. The mental health awareness is necessary to provide adolescents for aware them about negative impact of social media on their mental health. It is the joint duty of parents, teachers or educational institutions and society to aware them and engage them with mindfulness practices or conduct such a program to reduce the negative impact of social media.

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Jesmin Sultana (March-2023). Impact of social media on mental health of adolescents . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(3), d584-d592. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303379.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 3, March-2023

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Country: Kamrup , Assam , India

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