The Effects of TiKToK on Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing of University Students

Abstract

In this world of the digital era, social media is becoming quite popular and provides users with different platforms on which people can do many things. TikTok is one of the social media platforms that is becoming quite popular among people of all ages. TikTok is loaded with many types of content and people watching different types of content can derive the meaning according to them. TikTok is a social media application that is creating a disturbance in our society. Beauty complex, superiority complex, child pornography, cyberbullying, parental disengagement, and many other issues are increasing because of this application. This research is about to find out why TikTok is a more highlighted application than other social media applications and highlight the psychological effect on the young generation who are inspired by TikTok videos and TikTok stars. The deductive approach and the convenient sampling technique will be used in this study. This research will be quantitative, and the data will be collected through surveys. The questionnaire will be used to collect data from a student who was adopted. Statistical analysis through SPSS will be performed to check the hypothesis. This research is conducted to create awareness that they are wasting their time on something useless, and their friends and family should help them to drive out this addiction which is affecting them badly.

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