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Results

Table 1

Correlation between Social media addiction and Self-esteem

Variables n M SD SMA SE
Social media addiction 100 74.94 14.50 -
Self-esteem 100 19.21 4.34 -0.22 -

Pearson’s correlation coefficient between social media addiction and self-esteem was found
to be -0.22. It indicates a low but definite correlation. The direction of the correlation is
negative which indicates that people with high social media addiction are likely to have low
self-esteem and vice-versa.

Figure 1

Correlation between Social media addiction and Self-esteem scores

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