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Impact of Social Media on Student Emotions

Social media use has grown significantly and now occupies around 2 hours per day of users' time on average. Researchers have begun studying the psychological effects of social media use on students. Studies show that social media can influence users' moods, as positive and negative content viewed can transfer moods among users. As students increasingly rely on social media, they may compare themselves to others or develop unrealistic expectations, which can increase affective issues like depression, stress, and anxiety. This paper aims to review research on how social media impacts students' affective variables and mental health.

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Impact of Social Media on Student Emotions

Social media use has grown significantly and now occupies around 2 hours per day of users' time on average. Researchers have begun studying the psychological effects of social media use on students. Studies show that social media can influence users' moods, as positive and negative content viewed can transfer moods among users. As students increasingly rely on social media, they may compare themselves to others or develop unrealistic expectations, which can increase affective issues like depression, stress, and anxiety. This paper aims to review research on how social media impacts students' affective variables and mental health.

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The Effect of Social Media on the development of students’ affective

variables
Introduction

Social media has turned into an essential element of individuals’ lives including students
in today’s world of communication. Its use is growing significantly more than ever before
especially in the post-pandemic era, marked by a great revolution happening to the educational
systems. Recent investigations of using social media show that approximately 3 billion
individuals worldwide are now communicating via social media (Iwamoto and Chun, 2020).
This growing population of social media users is spending more and more time on social
network groupings, as facts and figures show that individuals spend 2 h a day, on average, on a
variety of social media applications, exchanging pictures and messages, updating status,
tweeting, favoring, and commenting on many updated socially shared information (Abbott,
2017).

Body

Researchers have begun to investigate the psychological effects of using social media on
students’ lives. Chukwuere and Chukwuere (2017) maintained that social media platforms can
be considered the most important source of changing individuals’ mood, because when someone
is passively using a social media platform seemingly with no special purpose, s/he can finally
feel that his/her mood has changed as a function of the nature of content over viewed.
Therefore, positive and negative moods can easily be transferred among the population using
social media networks (Chukwuere and Chukwuere, 2017). This may become increasingly
important as students are seen to be using social media platforms more than before and social
networking is becoming an integral aspect of their lives. As described by Iwamoto and Chun
(2020), when students are affected by social media posts, especially due to the increasing
reliance on social media use in life, they may be encouraged to begin comparing themselves to
others or develop great unrealistic expectations of themselves or others, which can have several
affective consequences.

Conclusion

Considering the increasing influence of social media on education, the present paper
aims to focus on the affective variables such as depression, stress, and anxiety, and how social
media can possibly increase or decrease these emotions in student life. The exemplary works of
research on this topic in recent years will be reviewed here, hoping to shed light on the positive
and negative effects of these ever-growing influential platforms on the psychology of students.

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