PENGARUH AKTIVITAS PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING PADA MAHASISWA

The increasingly massive social media usage from various groups makes social media a means of communication between individuals and their social community. Activities and social interactions through social media had the potential to affected individual psychological aspects. Previous research showed that social media usage is associated with one’s Psychological Well-Being. This study aimed to determine the effect of social media usage on Psychological Well-Being among university students. A total of 213 students active users of Instagram participated in this study and were selected using the accidental sampling technique. This study uses a correlational research design. Two research instruments in this study were Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being and the SNS’s Featured Usage scale. Based on a simple linear regression test, the result showed no significant effect between the active usage of social media among university students Psychological Well-Being