Facebook Addiction and Psychological Distress among Youth: An empirical study

Youth is a time period of life where the dependent children become independent adult and it is the self awareness of oneself as an independent member of a community and the time between childhood and maturity. It is the most precious time of one‟s life where we make choices which will affect our life in future and addiction to facebook is increasing rapidly which is making an individual unable to control the use of facebook which further can lead to symptoms of psychological distress. The present study was therefore designed to study the relationship between facebook addiction and psychological distress through Facebook Addiction Scale by Andreassen (2012) and Psychological Distress Scale by Kessler (2002) were administered on 70 subjects (15-25 years) of both genders and there is not found a very high positive correlation but a weak uphill positive linear relationship exist in between these two variables.