Garima Sharma , Manas Foundation, Noida
Siddharth Soni, Amity University, Noida
Social media has become extremely popular with its escalated usage. While social
media provides many new opportunities for communication, its addiction can cause
severe psychological problems. The present study aimed to understand the relationship
between social media addiction, sense of identity and well-being. To measure social
media addiction, Social Media Addiction Scale (Shahnawaz & Rehman, 2020) was
used, to measure sense of identity, Self-Concept and Identity Measure (Kaufman
et al., 2015) and to measure well-being, WHO- Five Well-Being Index (WHO, 1998)
was employed. 119 participants participated in the study from Delhi-NCR region aged
between 15-24. The result revealed that there is a positive correlation between social
media addiction and identity confusion, a negative correlation between social media
addiction and well-being and a positive correlation between identity confusion and wellbeing. Further linear regression revealed that social media addiction impacts a sense
of identity and well-being, also identity confusion impacts well-being. Differences in the
three variables of implied in the study based on sex, age and number of social media
sites used was also determined.