Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Social media has become an important part of students’lives, with TikTok being one of the most popular platforms. This study aims to analyze the effect of TikTok usage on students’ mental hearlth. Using quantitative methods through distributing questionnaires to 200 students at five different universities in Indonesia, it was found that there was a significant correlation between the duration of TikTok usage and symptoms of stress and anxiety. However, TikTok also provides positive effects in the form of entertainment and temporary refuge from academic pressure. The results of this study are expected to be the basis for developing healthy social media usage strategies
Source: BICC Proceedings
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7216778205
