Influence of Social Media in Developing Social Anxiety: A Study of Kurukshetra University Students

Abstract

In the present scenario students have modern ways to communicate with one another; they can interact easily through social media platforms. A lot of advantages and disadvantages of social media as one disadvantage is social anxiety. Social anxiety is the reason of hyper depression; it negatively effects physically, psychologically and increase complexity among students. These all causes are interlinked with social media. To study about the social anxiety among students, Social media needs to aware the youth about the harmful effects of it. The Purposive sampling technique was used; students were selected who are totally engaged with social media websites. The total numbers of 50 respondents of Postgraduate regular students of Kurukshetra University were selected for this study. The data collected through survey method. According to the research paper findings, there is no correlation between social media and social anxiety. Which means social media is not playing any crucial role in developing social anxiety among university students. Social anxiety may occur in situations, but in this research, social media don’t develop the social anxiety among students. The purpose of this research paper is to find the relationship between social media and social anxiety. This study revealed that there is no connection between social media and social anxiety among the students of Kurukshetra University.