Social Consequences of Excessive Social Media Use: The Role of Sleep Quality and Self-Esteem

Authors

  • Farah Riaz Department of Applied Psychology, Government College University, Lahore Author
  • Hassan Imtiaz Department of Applied Psychology, Government College University, Lahore Author

Keywords:

use of social media, sleep great, shallowness, social consequences, college students, structural equation modeling, mediation

Abstract

The social media webweb sites were carefully included withinside the lives of college college students, casting large issues at the results of over use of those networks. The quantitative studies explored the social affects of immoderate use of social media with a specific emphasis at the mediating variables of sleep pleasant and vanity in college college students in Lahore, Pakistan. Data changed into accumulated on three hundred college students analyzing in 6 universities; 3 public and 3 privates the usage of stratified random sampling. The respondents spoke back verified questionnaires on social media use, sleep first-class, shallowness, and social consequences, wherein the consequences have been measured the use of a five-factor Likert scale. The facts changed into analyzed in SPSS and structural equation modeling (SEM) software, which concerned descriptive statistics, Cronbach alpha reliability test, Pearson correlation, and bootstrapped mediation analysis. It become determined that the immoderate use of social media become strongly correlated with the low sleep exceptional and coffee shallowness that, of their turn, anticipated low social consequences consisting of social withdrawal, interpersonal conflict, and coffee tiers of instructional engagement. The mediation exams confirmed that sleep pleasant and shallowness performed an crucial position as an oblique direction via which immoderate social media use caused bad social consequences. The outcomes spotlight the importance of institutional well-being and centered virtual literacy interventions focused at college students of the college. The studies paper is treasured to the prevailing frame of information approximately the psychosocial consequences of the usage of virtual era and gives sensible recommendations to educational establishments and policymakers.

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Published

2026-03-21