Instagram Use and Emerging Indian Female Adults Well-being during the COVID-19

Abstract

Research in the Well-being studies suggests that passive social networking sites use has a significant negative effect on the users well-being and the impact is mediated by the social comparison and Fear of Missing Out(FoMO) (Verduyn, 2015). The study re-examines the path suggested, during the Covid-19 crisis by quantitatively examining the Impact of passive Instagram use on the psychological well-being and the mediating roles of social comparison and FoMO of the Emerging Indian Female Adults aged 18 to 25 years who are at a critical stage of personality development [1] during the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic. The results of the study deviate from the path suggested [2] and While social comparison does not predict passive Instagram usage, FoMO predicts social comparison and mediates social comparison and psychological well-being during the pandemic.