A Descriptive Study on Psychological Factors-Depression, Anxiety, Stress and the Social Media Addicted Adolescent School Students- Social Work Interventions and Reattachment Therapies

Abstract

This descriptive study examines the level of depression, anxiety and stress in the social media addicted adolescent school students. The universe of the study consists of 304 students in 11th and 12th standard in two schools in Thiruvananthapuaram, Kerala, India, who were screen out for addiction in social media of all the 1008 students in the school. Census method was adopted to collect data from all the 304 social media addicted Adolescent school students.  DASS scale was used for measure the level of depression, anxiety and stress, which is developed by Lovibond & Lovibond. The study findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between the level of depression, anxiety and stress and the sociodemographic characters. The results of the study revealed that the level of depression, anxiety and stress increases for the social media addicted adolescent school students. Social work intervention techniques were suggested and reattachment therapies also mention in this study to reduce social media addiction and also to decrease depression, anxiety and stress for the adolescent school students who were addicted to social media.