Page No,286-292
Sambathrani, K. and Gayatridevi, S.
Avinashilingam University for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
The dynamically interactive Indian society is challenged by the new methods of
communication and the well-being of the adolescents is negatively affected by the use
of social media primarily depression which is associated somewhat with increased
morbidity and mortality. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare and analyse
the association of social media usage and depression among under graduate students.
A total of 98 under graduate students of Manipal University Jaipur, aged between 16 to
21 years were randomly selected for this cross-sectional study. The data of age, gender,
source of accessing social media, most used social media platform, average length of
each visit to social media and usage of social media in a day were used as independent
variables. Depression among subjects had been considered as dependent variable which
was further classified into depressed and not-depressed category. Kruskal-Wallis Test
was applied and the result shows significant difference in the depression score between
the different social media usage group and average length of each visit to social media.
However, chi-square results revealed that depression was significantly associated with
age of the subjects, usage of social media in a day and average length of each visit.
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