Social Media Addiction And Academic Achievement of Secondary Level School Students

Neloy Sarkar

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.7895

Social Media Addiction And Academic Achievement of Secondary Level School Students

Author(s)	Neloy Sarkar
Country	India
Abstract	Traditionally, the concept of addiction is based on a medical model, and it expresses extreme physical or psychological desire and commitment to a physical object. Social media is one of the communication platforms which allows for social interaction and facilitates discussions among its users. The focused of the present study is to examine the level of social media addiction of secondary school students and to make the relationship between the social media addiction and academic achievement of secondary school students. Present researcher followed descriptive survey research design and study mainly based on quantitative method. A total consist of 300 samples of class X was selected through the simple random sampling technique from the district of north 24 pgns. and a self-made questionnaire in five point likert type scale on social media addiction has administered to the target sample for the purpose of data collection. The present study found the three different social media addiction level i.e. no addiction, possible addiction and severe addiction among the secondary school students and study also revealed the gender and location wise significant differences in social media addiction of secondary school students. The major findings of the study revealed a negative correlation between the academic achievement and social media addiction. So, there is a need to see the internet as well as social media as the new object of cognition, neither a concrete artefact nor a visible social partner, but a gigantic virtual complex network henceforth the study is an effort and healthy sign of a new and growing area of research.
Keywords	Addiction, Social Media, Academic Achievement, Technology, Secondary School
Field	Sociology > Education
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-10-24
Cite This	Social Media Addiction And Academic Achievement of Secondary Level School Students - Neloy Sarkar - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.7895
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.7895
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gszvjw

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