Open AccessSocial media usage and academic achievement of higher secondary students
Author(s) -
Jijish Elias,
M. Mirunalini
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences (ijhs) (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-6978
pISSN - 2550-696X
DOI - 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns1.6214
Subject(s) - social media , scale (ratio) , psychology , pleasure , sociology , political science , geography , cartography , neuroscience , law
The COVID-19 lockdown has led to an increase in the usage of mobile phones and social media among adolescents. As adolescents utilise mobile phones and social media for educational and pleasure purposes, they grow increasingly attached. As a result, it's critical to dig deep into the relationship between teenage social media usage and academic success. The goal of this study was to design a social media usage scale (SMUS) for adolescents and utilise it to measure social media participation among higher secondary school students. Academic success can therefore be related to social media use. Researchers created and standardised a social media usage scale to gauge the prevalence of social media use amongst higher secondary school pupils. For the purpose of evaluation, SMUS implimented with 1068 students in Kerala's higher secondary schools. The majority of students, according to the findings of the survey, utilise social media. Social media use is not affected by location or gender, though. The findings show that there is a slight positive correlation between social media use and academic success.