Use of tiktok, social comparison and mental health in adults
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2020
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UMT Lahore
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The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between use of TikTok, Social comparison and mental health among adults. Since in Pakistan, there was no research on this concept so it was important to explore this concept. This research also investigated the new concept of TikTok which was never studied before in psychological terms. Correlational research design was used to study the relationships between variables. Convenient sampling technique was used to gather data and our sample consist of 170 participants (male: 85, female: 85). Three assessment measures were used to measure use of TikTok, social comparison and mental health, scales are used in questionnaire forms. Sample was taken from university students who also users of TikTok app. Data was analyzed into three steps, one was Pearson product moment correlation for assessing relationship among variables, second was regression for predicting variables and third was mediation analysis for assessing mediation of social comparison. Findings accept all the hypothesis of this study and states that more time spent on TikTok increase social comparison and its effect on mental health both in positive and negative way. But use of TikTok is not directly associated to psychological distress (sub-type of mental health). Women tend to be had positive effect on their psychological well-being as compared to males. The main significance of this research was to study this new concept of TikTok in relation with Psychological concepts to discover this term and there were few researches on the use of social media app and its positive effect on mental health even doing social comparison.