THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH OF GRADE 12 STUDENTS IN

CATANAUAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

General Problem
Social media is a powerful communication tool that has changed how individuals interact with one
another. It speeds up how people exchange and share information, thoughts, and ideas across
virtual networks. However, social media does have downsides. The goal of the study is to identify
the effects of social media on the mental health of the grade 12 students in Catanauan National
High School. Some evidence suggests that its use — in particular, its overuse — can negatively
affect mental health in numerous ways.

Specific Problem
• What are the effects of social media on the mental health of the students?
Review of Related Literature
THE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH
Social Media has exploded as a category of online discourse where people create content,
share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate. Because of its ease of use, speed and reach,
social media is fast changing the public discourse in society and setting trends and agenda in
topics that range from the environment and politics to technology and the entertainment
industry (Asur and Huberman, 2010). In the last ten years, the online world has changed
dramatically, thanks to the invention of social media, young men and women now exchange ideas,
feelings, personal information, pictures and videos at a truly astonishing rate. Seventy-three
percent of wired American teens now use social media websites (Oberst, 2010).
Martin, (2008) & Lusk, (2010) share the same concept of social media. To them social media
is the use of Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, Myspace, as well as Yahoo Messenger for communication
sharing of ideas, sharing of photos and videos by users. The increased used of Social Networking
Websites has become an international phenomenon in the past several years. What started out as a
hobby for some computer literate people has become a social norm and way of life for people from
all over the world (Boyd. 2007).
Teenagers and young adults have especially embraced these sites as a way to connect
with their peers, share information, reinvent their personalities, and showcase their social lives
(Boyd, 2007).In the past years, social media websites have become common; giving young people
a new way to interact with each other and communicate with the world. Social Networking became
popular between 2004 and 2006, after Facebook and Myspace were created. Social Networking
websites provide tools by which people can communicate, and create new relationships, With the
popularity of social networking websites on the rise, our social interaction is affected in multiple
ways as we adapt to our increasingly technological world.
 THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGES ON THE MENTAL WELL-BEING OF
MEDICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN BANGALORE KARNATAKA
There is no universally accepted definition of mental well-being, as it is a subjective term.
Multiple factors play a role in maintaining an optimal well-being status in an individual. The
WHO’s regional office for South East Asia has given a few concepts of mental well-being around
which a definition can be loosely woven. These concepts include, resilience, positive psychology,
salutogenic perspective of mental health, social capital and quality of life.
In this age of changing technology, social media has taken up one of the most influential
positions in a person’s life. This has scaled extents where even a day spent without one’s
smartphone has become imperceptible. The term “social media” generally refers to Internet-based
tools that allow individuals and communities to gather and communicate; to share information,
ideas, personal messages, images, and other content; and, in some cases, to collaborate with other
users in real time. Social media is said to have both negative and positive impacts on humanity. In
a study conducted on young adults in the US, it was found that use of social media was significantly
associated with increased depression. According to another study conducted in schools in Leicester
and London (UK), social media use was believed to cause mood and anxiety disorders in
adolescents. Despite these challenges and risks posed by social media, it does have an upside. It
offers a platform for its users to share information and spread awareness regarding various issues
including mental health problems. In a previous study it was found that people suffering from
mental health issues benefited from social media as it increased interaction with peers online and
helped form a feeling of social connectedness as they shared personal stories which helped them
to cope with their issues.
With this background, this study was taken up to contribute to the scarce literature about the
impact social media has on the mental well-being of medical students, since they are the future
workforce of the healthcare sector. Their manner of practice of medicine will largely be determined
by their sense of well-being in their formative years. Eventually, such data could be used to devise
methods for the optimal usage of social media and derive maximum benefits from the same with
minimal negative impact on health, so that they become responsible clinicians and content
individuals.

IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH OF STUDENTS

Deepa M, Dr.V.Krishna Priya
Social Media is taking part in different types of online networking; it is a routine
movement that inquires about the children and teenagers by upgrading communication, social
association, and even specialized skills (Horst H, 2010). Social networking sites offer different
day by day openings for interfacing with companions, schoolmates, and individuals with
common interests. (Ted Eytan 2010). During the most recent 5 years, the quantity of
preadolescents and youths utilizing social networking sites has expanded significantly. As per
the recent survey, 22% of adolescents sign on to their top choice social networking sites over 10
times each day, and the greater part of young people sign on to SNS more than once a day.
Seventy-five percent of young people presently use phones, and 25% use them for social
media, 54% use them for messaging, and 24% use them for instant messaging. Thus, a huge
amount of this current age’s social and enthusiastic advancement is happening while on the
Internet and cell telephones. (Hinduja S, Patchin J, 2010). Recently, a few specialists have related
social networking sites with a few mental disorders which include depression and anxiety. Since
social networking sites are a moderately new wonder, numerous inquiries concerning the
potential effect on mental health remain unanswered. (Igor Pantic, 2014). Therefore this research
undergoes the impact of social media on mental health issues of the student. The objective of
the study is to determine the impact of social media on mental health issues such as depression
and anxiety of students.

THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’

AFFECTIVE VARIABLES
Social media has turned into an essential element of individuals’ lives including students in
today’s world of communication. Its use is growing significantly more than ever before especially
in the post-pandemic era, marked by a great revolution happening to the educational systems.
Recent investigations of using social media show that approximately 3 billion individuals
worldwide are now communicating via social media (Iwamoto and Chun, 2020). This growing
population of social media users is spending more and more time on social network groupings, as
facts and figures show that individuals spend 2 h a day, on average, on a variety of social media
applications, exchanging pictures and messages, updating status, tweeting, favoring, and
commenting on many updated socially shared information (Abbott, 2017).
Researchers have begun to investigate the psychological effects of using social media on
students’ lives. Chukwuere and Chukwuere (2017) maintained that social media platforms can be
considered the most important source of changing individuals’ mood, because when someone is
passively using a social media platform seemingly with no special purpose, s/he can finally feel
that his/her mood has changed as a function of the nature of content overviewed. Therefore,
positive and negative moods can easily be transferred among the population using social media
networks (Chukwuere and Chukwuere, 2017). This may become increasingly important as
students are seen to be using social media platforms more than before and social networking is
becoming an integral aspect of their lives. As described by Iwamoto and Chun (2020), when
students are affected by social media posts, especially due to the increasing reliance on social
media use in life, they may be encouraged to begin comparing themselves to others or develop
great unrealistic expectations of themselves or others, which can have several affective
consequences.
Considering the increasing influence of social media on education, the present paper aims to
focus on the affective variables such as depression, stress, and anxiety, and how social media can
possibly increase or decrease these emotions in student life. The exemplary works of research on
this topic in recent years will be reviewed here, hoping to shed light on the positive and negative
effects of these ever-growing influential platforms on the psychology of students.
IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH OF GRADE 12HUMANITIES AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES (HUMSS) STUDENTS INMOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF BALER
DURING THESCHOOL YEAR 2021-2022
Today’s students and adolescents have never known a world without digital technology. With
a growing development in technology, life has become more comfortable and faster. At the same
time, the rise of technology has also created problems all around. Among the pool of technological
discoveries, social media has become so popular nowadays that one cannot escape from it.
Social media has become an integral part of human beings. It has influenced them in different
ways. On the other hand, the numerous benefits of the social media such as online/offline chatting,
video calling, sharing thoughts, posting photos, real-time news, advertisements, and meetings, are
attracting the users rapidly. People have become addicted to social media causing different social,
physical and mental problems.
The usage of social media can have both harmful and useful impact on mental health so that
the teachers and parents worry about the amount of time adolescents spend on social media and
other mobile technologies. Therefore, it is vital to use social media in a balanced way so that users
get the full advantage of it without hampering their mental health. Social media is the connection
of friends or family which allow you to communicate or share your thoughts and ideas; with this
you can have a long chain of friends where you can share information or feelings. Social media
has changed behavioral lifestyle of every individual in this modern era, they become dependent to
social networking site, wherein this had also cause great impact on mental health. The social media
was designed to be addictive and are associated with positive effect like allows individual to
express their self. It is also associated with negative effect like anxiety and depression which is
our focus on this study. This research work seeks to identify the awareness of students on the
positive and negative effects of social media to mental health and aims to motivate users to use
social media in balanced way

SOCIAL MEDIA AND ADOLESCENT’S AND YOUNG ADULTS' MENTAL HEALTH

Elina Mir, Caroline Novas & Meg Seymour, PhD, National Center for Health Research
Adolescents may be particularly vulnerable to potential negative impacts of social media
because social connectedness is important for their development. Browsing social media can lead
to FoMO, and the feeling of being excluded can lead to negative feelings.
Anxiety and depression are not the only mental health problems associated with social media
use. Research on adolescents has found that body image, for girls and boys, is harmed by social
media use.16 Higher social media use leads to “body surveillance,” which refers to monitoring
one’s own body and becoming judgmental of it. People who do more body surveillance report
feeling more shame about their bodies. Looking at profiles of attractive people leads to more
negative body image. There are many “fitspiration” accounts on Instagram, posting about diet and
exercise in order to be thin, and it is common for people to filter or Photoshop their posts on
Instagram in order to remove blemishes. People compare themselves to these ideals or these edited
images and feel like they do not measure up. This can cause poor body image.16 In 2021, leaked
documents revealed that researchers at Instagram found that using the app was harmful to teen
girls’ and boys’ body image. About 1 out of 3 teen girls felt worse about their bodies due to using
the app, and so did 14% of boys.
Another harmful aspect of social media is cyberbullying, which is bullying that occurs online.
As many as 72% of teens say that they have been cyberbullied at some point. Cyberbullying is
more strongly correlated with suicide attempts than is face-to-face bullying. Unlike bullying that
takes place in-person, victims of cyberbullying cannot get away from it, it stays online, and it
happens out of sight of teachers and parents.

SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL

STUDY EXAMINING ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SLEEP QUALITY AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Together with the very rapid digitalization in our age, the use of social media is increasing in
our country and in the world (Ersöz & Kahraman, 2020; Singh et al., 2020). According to the
Digital 2021: Global Overview Report, the time spent on social media has increased 1.5 times in
the last 5 years. The most widely used social networks are listed as: Facebook, YouTube,
WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Instagram, WeChat, TikTok and QQ (DataReportal, 2021a). As for
Turkey, the use of social media has increased by 11.1% in the past year, and YouTube, Instagram,
WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and FB Messenger are the most frequently used social networks
(DataReportal, 2021b). When the way of dealing with social media addiction is examined, it can
be said that nowadays, social media addiction has ceased to be an ordinary problem and become a
disease associated with a global epidemic. People all over the world can show excessive interest
in social media and spend a great deal of time using social media. For this reason, social media has
a negative effect on the lives of millions of people in the world (Andreassen, 2015; Singh et al.,
2020).
In a study by Drahošová and Balco (2017), in which they investigated the advantages and
disadvantages of social media use, 97.7% of participants stated that the advantages of using social
media were communication and the exchange of information, while 72.2% stated that the biggest
disadvantage was internet addiction. It is known that among users, especially the younger age
group faces the risk of addiction. Although social media is regarded as a new area of socialization
and that this situation is an advantage (Savcı & Aysan, 2017), it is also reported that social media
has a negative effect on interpersonal relationships (Çalışır, 2015), psychological health (Chen et
al., 2020) and private life (Acılar & Mersin, 2015), increases levels of depression (Haand &
Shuwang, 2020), and leads to social media addiction. Indeed, it has been determined that in the
case of adolescent users, excessive levels of use are associated with paranoid thoughts, phobic
anxiety and feelings of anger and hostility (Bilgin, 2018). Moreover, an increase in periods of
social media use can cause a reduction in sleep quality (Eroğlu & Yıldırım, 2017). Poor sleep
quality can lead to daytime sleepiness in students and to negative effects on their performance,
school achievement, activities and energy (Güneş et al., 2018).
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the switch to the distance education process was made in line
with the restrictions implemented for protecting public health. The extension of periods spent at
home by adolescents has led to long periods of exposure to screens, a restriction of outdoor
activities, a reduction in peer interactions, unhealthy sleep patterns, and increases in stress and
anxiety levels (Liu et al., 2021; Wang et al., 2020). Based on this, the aim of this study is to
examine the relationship of social media addiction with sleep quality and psychological problems
in high school students.

SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND ITS CONNECTION TO MENTAL HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC

REVIEW
Fazida Karim, Azeezat A Oyewande, and Safeera Khan
Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which people understand their abilities, solve
everyday life problems, work well, and make a significant contribution to the lives of their
communities. There is debated presently going on regarding the benefits and negative impacts of
social media on mental health.
Social networking is a crucial element in protecting our mental health. Both the quantity and
quality of social relationships affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality
risk. The Displaced Behavior Theory may help explain why social media shows a connection with
mental health. According to the theory, people who spend more time in sedentary behaviors such
as social media use have less time for face-to-face social interaction, both of which have been
proven to be protective against mental disorders.
On the other hand, social theories found how social media use affects mental health by
influencing how people view, maintain, and interact with their social network. A number of studies
have been conducted on the impacts of social media, and it has been indicated that the prolonged
use of social media platforms such as Facebook may be related to negative signs and symptoms of
depression, anxiety, and stress. Furthermore, social media can create a lot of pressure to create the
stereotype that others want to see and also being as popular as others.

• What recommendations can be made of address the effects of social media on mental health?

THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH: A REVIEW

Hilal Bashir, Shabir Ahmad Bhat
Including application like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, online gaming, virtual worlds like
Second Life, Sims, YouTube, Blogs and so on. These sites of present era are growing exponentially
and act as easy available portals for communication and entertainment for younger generation.
Merriam-Webster (2014) defined social media as, “forms of electronic communication (as Web
sites for social networking and micro-blogging) through which users create online communities to
share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).”Virtual platforms of
social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. significantly enhanced the virtual environment from past
decade by facilitating users to interchange their feelings, ideas, personal information, pictures and
videos at anun-precedential proportion.
 Further, social media users have speedily adopted online social communication as an essential
part of daily life, as evidenced by the increasing figure of daily users. In fact, Facebook alone
reported an estimated 1 billion active users in 27 august 2015. It means one in seven people on
earth used Facebook in a single day to stay connected with their friends and family (posted by
Mark Zakerberg on Thursday, August 27, 2015).
Consequently social media lays substantial influence on different aspects of present digital life
apart from online communication, from marketing to politics to education to health to basic human
interaction. In many of these areas, social media presents clear benefits; however, social media
phenomenon is relatively new, number of empirical studies evaluated the overall influence of
regular use of social media on the well-being and mental health of it’s user.
THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING PROFILE OF YOUNG ADULTS USING
SOCIAL MEDIA
Nina H. Di Cara, Lizzy Winstone, Claire M. A. Haworth
The trails of data left online by our digital footprints are increasingly being used to measure
and understand our health and well-being. Data sourced from social media platforms has been of
particular interest given their potential to be used as a form of ‘natural’ observational data about
anything from our voting intentions to symptoms of disease.
There is not a single, widely agreed definition of the term ‘social media’ but for the purposes
of this study we understand it to be a broad category of internet-based platforms that allow for the
exchange of user-generated content by ‘users’ of that platform. Both the huge volumes of data
available on such platforms, and their increasing uptake across the population have led to two main
fields of interest in the intersections of social media and mental health. These are the prediction of
mental health and well-being from our online data4 and, somewhat reciprocally, the influence of
social media on our mental health, particularly in the case of children and young people. These
fields both ask fundamental questions about the mental health and well-being of social media users,
to either understand the ways our mental health influences our social media behavior, or how our
social media behaviors influence our mental health.
Across both contexts a wide range of psychological outcomes have been studied, including
predicting suicide at a population-level and individually, mapping the influences of social media
platforms on disordered eating9 and self-harm, understanding the impacts of cyberbullying
through social media platforms, and even ethnographic research into online support networks.
SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND WELL-BEING: WHAT WE KNOWN AND WHAT WE NEED
TO KNOW
Patti M.Valkenburg
It is almost a truism: In the past decade, social media have become a massive and meaningful
part of our daily existence. Individuals, adults and adolescents alike, use on average five social
media platforms in a complementary way [1], to interact privately with family members and
friends, and/or to interact publicly with broader audiences of friends, acquaintances, and
colleagues [2]. In parallel with this surging social media use (SMU), research into its potential
impact on well-being (e.g., life satisfaction) and ill-being (e.g., depression) has also accumulated
dramatically [3]. As recent reviews demonstrate [4, 5, 6], the past years have witnessed at least
300 studies on the impact of SMU on well- and ill-being.
Together with the exponential increase in empirical studies, reviews of the impact of SMU on
well- and ill-being have also surged in the past few years. Because this rapidly expanding research
output makes it ever more difficult for researchers to keep track of it, an up-to-date umbrella review
of this literature is necessary and important. An umbrella review, also called a meta-review, is a
synthesis of existing reviews [7]. Three earlier umbrella reviews have focused on the associations
of SMU with well- and ill-being [3,8,9]. One of these focused on adolescents, thereby excluding
reviews on adults [9], and neither of the two others included the 22 reviews on the effects of SMU
on well-/ill-being published in 2020 and 2021.
In this article, I first outline the search method of this umbrella review as well as the operational
definitions of SMU, well-being, and ill-being. To assess “what we know,” I use the meta-analyses
to discuss the associations of seven different types of SMU with well- and ill-being. The systematic
and narrative reviews are used to complement the meta-analytical results, as well as to summarize
the identified gaps in the literature and the suggestions for future research. To assess “what we
need to know,” the article ends with some general conclusions and three additional
recommendations for future research.
EFFECTS OF RESTRICTING SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON WELL BEING AND
PERFORMANCE: A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL AMONG STUDENTS
Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers
Social media increasingly plays an important role in our daily lives. Ever since the launch of
major modern social media platforms such as Facebook, users have adopted them at an explosive
pace and adoption continues to increase to this day. Almost 3 billion users are active monthly on
Facebook in 2021. This corresponds to over a third of the global population. The average adult
spends over 45 minutes every day on social media platforms.
Given this rapid adoption and usage of social media platforms, it is essential to study the
impact of social media on the well-being of users. Brynjolfsson et al. find that digital technologies,
including social media, generate a large amount of consumer surplus. More specifically, they
conduct incentive compatible choice experiments to measure the consumer surplus generated by
Facebook and find that the median US Facebook user obtains around $48/month of value from
using Facebook in 2017 as measured from their willingness to accept to give up access to Facebook
for a month. They also conduct a similar experiment with students at a large European university
and find that the median student in their sample obtains €97/month of value from using Facebook.
While Facebook and other social media services seem to generate a large amount of consumer
surplus and contribute towards the economic well-being of their users, questions are raised about
the negative externalities generated by social media. There is an active debate in media and
academic research about the impact of social media on subjective well-being (including happiness
and life satisfaction) and productivity. Current empirical results are ambiguous. Across different
studies, correlational evidence points towards a positive, neutral (null results) and negative
relationship between social media use and well-being for a comprehensive literature review of
social media use and mental health). However, most of this evidence suffers from issues related to
reverse causality and inaccurate measures of self-reported social media use. Rigorous causal
evidence on long term impacts of social media use on well-being is lacking.

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON DEPRESSION,

ANXIETY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN ADOLESCENTS
Betul Keles
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2017) reported that 10–20% of children and
adolescents worldwide experience mental health problems. It is estimated that 50% of all mental
disorders are established by the age of 14 and 75% by the age of 18 (Kessler et al., 2007; Kim-
Cohen et al., 2003). The most common disorders in children and adolescents are generalized
anxiety disorder and depression, respectively (Mental Health Foundation, 2018; Stansfeld et al.,
2016). According to the Royal Society for Public Health, & Young Health Movement (2017), the
prevalence of anxiety and depression has increased by 70% in the past 25 years in young people.
Depression and anxiety have adverse consequences on adolescent development, including lower
educational attainment, school dropout, impaired social relationships, and increased risk of
substance abuse, mental health problems and suicide (Copeland, Angold, Shanahan, & Costello,
2014; Gore et al., 2011; Hetrick, Cox, Witt, Bir, & Merry, 2016). Morgan et al. (2017) reported
that the rate of self-harm in the UK has risen by 68% in girls aged 13–16 over the last 10 years.
Reasons for the apparently growing psychological morbidity in young people are not known
conclusively. McCrae (2018) suggests that diagnostic activity has been influenced by educational
initiatives to raise mental health awareness. Undeterred by stigma, many young people feel free to
discuss their psychological difficulties and seek professional help. Another important factor is the
ease of sharing personal experiences in the digital information age (Reid-Chassiakos, Radesky,
Christakis, & Moreno, 2016). Whereas in the past mental health problems were suffered in
isolation, today a struggling younger person can readily find others with similar problems, either
through social interaction or support groups. Alongside increasing awareness and help-seeking
behavior, doctors may be more inclined to diagnose and treat mental health problems, possibly
with the effect of lowering the diagnostic threshold.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH: BENEFITS, RISKS, AND OPPORTUNITIES

FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
John A. Naslund
Social media has become a prominent fixture in the lives of many individuals facing the
challenges of mental illness. Social media refers broadly to web and mobile platforms that allow
individuals to connect with others within a virtual network (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Snapchat, or LinkedIn), where they can share, co-create, or exchange various forms of digital
content, including information, messages, photos, or videos (Ahmed et al. 2019). Studies have
reported that individuals living with a range of mental disorders, including depression, psychotic
disorders, or other severe mental illnesses, use social media platforms at comparable rates as the
general population, with use ranging from about 70% among middle-age and older individuals to
upwards of 97% among younger individuals (Aschbrenner et al. 2018b; Birnbaum et al. 2017b;
Brunette et al. 2019; Naslund et al. 2016).
Across the USA and globally, very few people living with mental illness have access to
adequate mental health services (Patel et al. 2018). The wide reach and near ubiquitous use of
social media platforms may afford novel opportunities to address these shortfalls in existing mental
health care, by enhancing the quality, availability, and reach of services. Recent studies have
explored patterns of social media use, impact of social media use on mental health and wellbeing,
and the potential to leverage the popularity and interactive features of social media to enhance the
delivery of interventions. However, there remains uncertainty regarding the risks and potential
harms of social media for mental health (Orben and Przybylski 2019) and how best to weigh these
concerns against potential benefits.
In this commentary, we summarized current research on the use of social media among
individuals with mental illness, with consideration of the impact of social media on mental
wellbeing, as well as early efforts using social media for delivery of evidence-based programs for
addressing mental health problems. We searched for recent peer reviewed publications in Medline
and Google Scholar using the search terms “mental health” or “mental illness” and “social media,”
and searched the reference lists of recent reviews and other relevant studies. We reviewed the risks,
potential harms, and necessary safety precautions with using social media for mental health.
Overall, our goal was to consider the role of social media as a potentially viable intervention
platform for offering support to persons with mental disorders, promoting engagement and
retention in care, and enhancing existing mental health services, while balancing the need for
safety. Given this broad objective, we did not perform a systematic search of the literature and we
did not apply specific inclusion criteria based on study design or type of mental disorder.
SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND ITS CONNECTION TO MENTAL HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC
REVIEW
Fazida Karim, Azeezat A Oyewande, and Safeera Khan
Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which people understand their abilities, solve
everyday life problems, work well, and make a significant contribution to the lives of their
communities. There is debated presently going on regarding the benefits and negative impacts of
social media on mental health.
Social networking is a crucial element in protecting our mental health. Both the quantity and
quality of social relationships affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality
risk. The Displaced Behavior Theory may help explain why social media shows a connection with
mental health. According to the theory, people who spend more time in sedentary behaviors such
as social media use have less time for face-to-face social interaction, both of which have been
proven to be protective against mental disorders.
On the other hand, social theories found how social media use affects mental health by
influencing how people view, maintain, and interact with their social network. A number of studies
have been conducted on the impacts of social media, and it has been indicated that the prolonged
use of social media platforms such as Facebook may be related to negative signs and symptoms of
depression, anxiety, and stress. Furthermore, social media can create a lot of pressure to create the
stereotype that others want to see and also being as popular as others.
RESEARCHER:
PATINGO, JODDEREC
ABELLA, NEPTHALI

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