Applied Psychology (M.A.)
Explore –Journal of Research
Peer Reviewed Journal
ISSN 2278–0297 (Print)
ISSN 2278–6414 (Online)
© Patna Women’s College, Patna, India
Social Media Usage, Everyday Memory Failures and Emotional Contagion among Indian College Students
• Divya Kumari • Aditi lnishya • Shreya Sinha • Medha
Received : December 2021
Accepted : January 2022
Corresponding Author : Medha
Abstract : The present study was undertaken with the curious intent to investigate the cognitive consequences of social networking/social media usage in terms of its relationship with memory failure and emotional contagion among college students, who are the ardent and fluent users of social networking. Six hypotheses were formulated for the purpose of finding out if significant correlation exists between the variables and also to look for significant gender differences between male and female college students on those variables. A sample of 150 college students (75 male and 75 female) with age range 18-25 were chosen using incidental sampling. The data was collected through online as well as offline mode from different colleges across India. The Social Netwoarking Usage Questionnaire by Gupta and Bashir, Everyday Memory Questionnaire-revised (EMQ-R) by Royale and Lincoln and Emotional Contagion Scale by Doherty were applied as research tools to quantitatively measure the variables. Coefficient of
correlation, Mean, Standard deviation and t-ratio of the obtained scores were calculated for testing the hypotheses. The study found significant positive correlation between social networking usage and emotional contagion among college students. No significant positive correlation was found between the pairs: social networking usage and everyday memory failure and everyday memory failure and emotional contagion among college students. The difference between male and female social networking usage and emotional contagion between male and female college students was found to be significant whereas gender difference in everyday memory failure was not significant among college students.
Keywords : Social media usage, Everyday Memory Failure, Emotional Contagion, College Students.
Divya Kumari
M.A. II year, Applied Psychology, Session: 2020-2022, Patna Women’s College (Autonomous),
Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India
Aditi Inishya
M.A. II year, Applied Psychology, Session: 2020-2022, Patna Women’s College (Autonomous),
Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India
Shreya Sinha
M.A. II year, Applied Psychology, Session: 2020-2022, Patna Women’s College (Autonomous),
Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India
Medha
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Patna Women’s College (Autonomous),
Bailey Road, Patna-800 001, Bihar, India E-mail : medha.me2016@gmail.com
