Excessive Use of Social Media and Mental Health

Abstract

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.