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“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH OF SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN THE SELECTED SCHOOLS OF PUNE CITY.”

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Mrs. Manisha Gadade, Karuna Bhokare, Chinmay Kadam, Sumit Karade, Shivraj Karale, Kartik Ghadge
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s3.449

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Social media refers to computer based technology that enables knowledge, thoughts and ideas to be shared through online communities and networks. The overuse of social media platforms is a growing phenomena and divisive topic in today's youth. Individuals have developed addictions to different social networking sites. Scientific research revealed that symptoms could result from over use of social networking sites addictions caused by substances, such as salience, mood modulation, tolerance, issues with behavioural addictions, withdrawal, and (Kuss & Griffiths, 2017).According to Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive, Facebook was created to be compulsive. He discovered that social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and WhatsApp. Psychologically manipulate users with the goal of taking advantage of the behaviours of people of all ages. In a recent interview, Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook, stated that the procedure and Facebook's engineering team wants to take up as much of the user's time as possible Methodology: Non-experimental exploratory techniques were used in this investigation. Data on 200 samples were gathered. Data were gathered from samples using a non-probability convenient sampling technique. A tool was created to determine the demographic factor, and a series of selfstructured questions about effects of social media on the mental health knowledge were also included. Result: The result shows majority 72% of children's uses social media sometimes whereas 12% of children's uses social media very often and 16% of children's uses social media rarely. Conclusion: On the basis of the outcomes of the present study the underlying interpretations were made on the knowledge regarding effects of social media on the mental health of school going children and was found that 72% of the children uses social media Sometimes,16% uses rarely and 12% of children uses social media very often and they have good knowledge regarding effect of social media on mental health. The study is conducted to assess the knowledge regarding effect of social media on mental health of school going children's in selected schools of Pune City. A review of literature has helped the researcher who gains depth information about the content. a tool was developed based on literature.

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