THE INFLUENCE OF INSTAGRAM USE ON SOCIAL ANXIETY IN EARLY ADULTHOOD
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One of the online social media platforms is instagram, which can connect individuals to communicate remotely and visually, which can lead to anxiety as a result of negative social comparison and fear of missing out. Anxiety is a condition where individuals experience fear if they do not get support and acceptance from their environment. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of instagram use on social anxiety in early adulthood. A total of 258 psychology students, from university X who use instagram at least once a week with an age range of 20-40 years, participated in this study. Quantitative non-experimental correlation was the research method used. Social anxiety was measured using the Social Anxiety Scales for Adolescent (SAS-A) from La Greca and Lopez (1998) which has been translated by Ivana (2022), with a total of 18 items and a Cronbach Alpha of 0.928. Meanwhile, instagram was measured using The Passive Active Use Measure (PAUM) by Gerson et al. (2017) which has been adapted by Amanda (2020), with 10 items and a Cronbach Alpha of 0.822. The correlation test results show that the p value is -0.072 and the significance value of p = 0.248 > 0.05 which means that social anxiety has no correlation with instagram, but one of the dimensions, namely Social Avoidance and Distress-General (SAD-G) has a significant negative correlation with instagram usage. Regression tests were not performed because there is no correlation between variables. The conclusion of this study is the higher the social anxiety, the lower the use of instagram.
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