Excessive Use of Social Media and Mental Health

Authors

Sheraz Ali Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Social and Gender Studies, University of Swat Author
Aeni Bibi MPhil Scholar in Sociology, Department of Social and Gender Studies, University of Swat Author
Muhammad Asghar Khan Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Social and Gender Studies, University of Swat Author

Mental Stress, Academic Performance, Social Media

This research study investigated the relationship between excessive use of social media and mental

health. This is a quantitative study that collected the data through structured questionnaire. The

questionnaire was filled in from 300 students of different colleges and universities in district Swat.

The data was gender balanced. It was identified that screen addiction causes stress among students

who excessively use social media because giving more time to social media basically negatively

affected their academic performance and also other daily life activities due to which stress was

caused. Of total respondents, 27 percent revealed that they rarely feel stressed while 7 percent said

that they feel stressed quite often. Those who revealed that they feel stress rarely was basically due

to variation in time which they specify for the use of social media while among the 7 percent

respondents there was no variation in time