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    Impact of Social Media on Mental Health of Students in Lahore
    (UMT, Lahore, 2025) Fajjar Abbas
    This paper discusses the relationship between social media use and mental health among Pakistani students in Lahore. The mental impacts of social media, particularly in the youth, have been raised as the use of the platform has rapidly grown. Convenience sampling was used to select a sample of 384 students across different learning institutions like UMT, UCP, UOL, among others and a structured questionnaire was administered on them as part of the quantitative study design. The study was aimed to assess the outcomes on mental health under the influence of social media use, focusing on anxiety, depression, and overall mental health. Based on descriptive statistics, the majority of respondents were females (69.5 percent), college students (79.9 percent), and aged between 25 and 40 years (60.4 percent). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that age (B = -0.660, p <.001) and anxiety (B = -0.101, p =.001) were significant negative predictors of mental health, but education (B = -0.294, p =.031) and gender (B = 0.234, p =.022) also had statistically significant but weaker influences. Although SMU turned out to be relevant in a more parsimonious model without demographic controls, depression (D) and social media usage (SMU) remained not significant predictors in the final model. The last model has a small level of explanatory power that explains 31.5 percent of the outcome of mental health (R2 = 0.315). Based on these findings, age and anxiety are more accurate and better predictors of mental health than the use of social media which has an indirect effect. The research concludes that the primary objectives of mental health initiatives ought to be age-appropriate support methods, computer literacy, and decreasing anxiety. Social media platforms also need to implement more features that can assist a user in their psychological well-being.