IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review

Satinder Kaur ¹, Deepika Vig ¹, Sarita Saini ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The current study was undertaken to explore the self-esteem of rural and urban adolescents with selfie addiction. The total sample comprised of 360 adolescents studying in 10th, 11th and 12th standard from schools of Ludhiana district identified with selfie addiction and equally divided across two locales i.e. rural and urban. Self-structured Selfie Addiction checklist and Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1986) was used to collect the data. The results indicated that majority of rural and urban adolescents with borderline, acute and chronic level of selfie addiction were found to have medium self-esteem. It was further found that none of the rural and urban adolescent with chronic level of self-esteem had high level of self-esteem. This indicated that irrespective of the locale (rural/urban), the percentage of rural and urban adolescents with high self-esteem decreased as the severity of selfie addiction increased.

Keywords

Adolescents, Selfie Addiction, Self-Esteem.

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Satinder Kaur ¹, Deepika Vig ¹, Asha Chawla Thakral ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab ., IN

Abstract

Social media usage has grown swiftly in recent years, with one of the most popular activities for young adults like clicking, editing and uploading, self-photos, known as selfies. However, research has only recently begun to investigate selfies, and little is known about selfe practices in young adults and its association with depression. The present study is based on the dynamics of perceived Depression among selfie addicts and non-selfie addicts of young adults of Punjab. Under this study, 500 young adults were surveyed aged between 19-21 years by using Self-Structured Selfie Addiction Checklist and Beck Depression Inventory. A complete list of all the districts falling under three cultural regions of Punjab, viz., Majha, Malwa, and Doaba was prepared. For equal representation of the sample from all cultural regions, proportionate numbers of districts were selected in the ratio of approximately 1:1:3 from Majha, Doaba, and Malwa region respectively. Amritsar district from Majha and Jalandhar district from Doaba region and Ludhiana, Moga and Patiala from Malwa region were purposively selected. The colleges and universities were chosen randomly for data collection to complete the sample. Survey results indicated that selfie addiction has no relationship with depression. However, whether, selfie addict or non selfie addict young adults, both were found to have minimal level of depression in Majha, Malwa, and Doaba.

Keywords

selfie, selfie addition, depression and young adults

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