Journal of Innovation in Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Impact of Social Networks on interpersonal behavioral dysfunction

  • Author:
  • Koppala Rvs Chaitanya, Gurpreet Kaur, R Venna, Surya Anusha
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 53 to 59

Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India, 144411

*Correspondence to: Koppala Rvs Chaitanya, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India, 144411, Email: koppalachaitu@gmail.com

Online published on 27 September, 2019.

Abstract

From last few years, the access of social media has been growing rapidly in youngsters because of social revolution. Popularity of these sites played a crucial role in bridging boundaries and crossing seas and enabling them to communicate on a common platform. The overuse or more addiction of these sites might be responsible for interpersonal dysfunctions which affects the human behaviour and ultimately shows its negative impact on personality. Person may be suffered from narcissism, antisocial, borderline, addictive personality, etc. This project adds another dimension to the debate by focusing on human behaviour. This study was conducted to find out the negative impact of social media on human behaviour. A prevalidated offline questionnaire was prepared and responses were recorded from senior-secondary students and graduate students of (BBA) in Jagraon (Punjab), graduate students of (B. Pharmacy) and employees in Jalandhar (Punjab) with a sample size of 200, the data collected was analysed and interpreted using SPSS ver 22.0 and presented in the form of bar-charts and tables. Results found that the age group of 10–20 ranges, students from schools mostly females are so much addicted to social networks, and had some impact of SNS on their behaviour and personality traits. This study provided a way for research and need to do it in future by increasing the population size and including still some more tests for personality and behavioural studies and find out, what the exact scenario out for their behaviour and personality disorders.

Keywords

Narcissistic, impact of social networks, addiction, DSM-IV, behaviourdisorders