Impact of Social Media on Mental Health of University Students

Early childhood studies

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Contents
Abstract ...........................................................................................................................................1
Findings and discussion...................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSIONS..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Abstract
Social networking sites advance the virtual communication and interaction and within
this each individual create and develop its own public profile under which balanced level of
interaction is developed with known. In this sustained level of information is collected and
shared as per interest basis as with support of different social media sites such as Facebook,
LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and many others platforms as well. In this working
efficiency and its effectiveness both get advanced in balanced mode. It also induces wider impact
over the mental health of students as it enhances the rate of risk of depression, loneliness,
anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and many other basis as well that collectively promote and
advance negative experience in terms of appearance and advocacy (Islam, Mäntymäki and
Benbasat, 2019). The access usage of internet creates and develop heightened level of
psychological arouse that also resulted into less sleep, limited physical activities that possibly
turns into experiencing depression, OCD, low persuasion of relationship.
Findings and discussion
It has been found that social media is always plays essential role within the University career
of a student. In this concern is developed about to control habits of students as per concern of
social media usage as whilst of studying various extent towards health as well as well-being. In
addition, there are different measures that is processed to support by University students to
control and support their mental health. There are wider and emerging trends of social media
among UK that appear towards enhancement of student relying towards usage of interaction,
communication, shopping and videogames that seamlessly induce dedicated spending towards
education and its processing (Jordan and Weller, 2018). It is required that health concern is
always be prioritised and that is processed as per concern of physical, psychological and mental
health. In prospect to adequate survey outcome it is perceived that infrastructure plays vital role
and as per survey concern it is analysed that about 83% of students in UK make supportive usage
of internet for their studies while 80% of students make use it for to process continuous level of
interaction with others. Moreover, 33% indulge with continuous messaging, 25% of students
make supportive usage of internet at the time of playing games once in a week (Understanding
students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review, 2021). Moreover, it
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