A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON PSYCHOSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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In the present society, mainly for the youth generation, social media has evolved as a crucial part of everyday life. Most of the people have access to every kind of data all over the world on the palm of hands by using social media. Several social which helps people to get every information as twitter, Facebook, yahoo, telegram, imo, Skype, messenger, Whatsapp, YouTube etc. The ongoing discoveries disclosed that Whatsapp, Facebook and viber usage have a remarkable negative connection with scholars performance and with adolescent’s self-esteem; all these ranges of social medias have a remarkable positive connection with mental problems like depression, social anxiety and social relations; Facebook usage was determine as the most contributing variable for self-esteem of adults and social relations; Facebook and viber usage determine as a negative contributors for adolescent’s scholars performance; Facebook, viber and Whatsapp usage were determine as the initial , secondary and tertiary notable contributors on the depression of adolescents. The analysis shows that, social media usage has some negative affect on the mental behavior and scholar’s performance.
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