A Study between Social Media Usage and Self-Esteem among Youths
Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The use of social media has grown up dramatically day by day and social media statistics have been reporting to the level of fetching close to one-third of the world’s population as of January 2016 which average annual increase of 10% in a total number of handlers. The aim of the present study was to see the impact of education (post-graduation-graduation), gender (male-female), and social media usage (high and low) on the self-esteem of youths and investigate the relationship between social media usage and self-esteem. A total of 160 youth participated in the present study; 80 participants (40 boys and 40 girls) were graduate and 80 (40 boys and 40 girls) were postgraduate which studying in different departments of DDU Gorakhpur University; Gorakhpur. To know the Social Media Usage, an open-ended structured interview technique was used and for measuring self-esteem cooper, smith self-esteem inventory (1882) was used. Results revealed that gender differed significantly on self-esteem and self-esteem was found high in female users. Further, social media usage differed significantly on self-esteem which indicated that self-esteem was found higher in low social media users.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Shoaib Hasan
Institution: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3201632942