1PG Student, Department of Community Medicine, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Dist.: Khordha State: Odisha
2Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Dist.: Khordha State: Odisha
3Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Dist.: Khordha State: Odisha
Clicking selfie and sharing in social media is increasing day by day as an obsessive compulsive desire, which needs urgent attention.
To know the pattern of selfie taking and sharing of selfie in social networking sites and to correlate of selfie taking with self-esteem.
Colleges of one university in India.
A predesigned and pretested online questionnaire consisting of demographic characteristics, selfie related questions and Rosenberg self-esteem scale was used to collect data. Data were analyzed by using SPSS v20.
Among 595 participants, 23.1% of the students clicked selfies daily. The places where selfies clicked were public places (47.1%) followed by home (23.4%) and college (19.5%). Boredom (24.4%) was the main reason to click selfies. Negative mental health issues were seen among 56% of the participants like unhappiness, sadness, feeling worthless, depressed etc, when they didn't receive enough likes or comments in shared selfies. Among the students, 17.6% had selfitis and 20% had low self-esteem. No relation was seen between selfitis and low self-esteem.
Counselling emphasizing on self-motivation and self-control on unnecessary use of social media, giving quality time to family and friends may be initiated as intervention method.
Selfitis, social media, mental health, self-esteem, selfie addiction
