“FAMILY PARTICIPATORY INTERVENTION STRATEGIES ON THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION AND QUALITY OF SLEEP AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN SELECTED COLLEGES IN CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU.”

Abstract

Sleep has an important role in maintaining health and well being; this relationship is becoming increasingly recognised for adolescents and young adults. The purpose of the current research was to find out the relationship between quality of sleep  and Social Media Addiction. A true experimental research was conducted among young adults aged between 18 - 24 years  studying in selected colleges  in Chennai .A total of 156 young adults were screened for social media addiction by Bergen social media addiction scale. Among them 80 young adults who were addicted to social media and willing to participate in this study were  selected by using simple  random  sampling technique. Each 40 in experimental and  control group  were  selected for the study .The  questionnaire collected information on the following  two aspects: (1) demography, (2) sleep quality by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI),