Abstract :
Background: Eating practices are dramatically changing around the world and there is a rapid transition in culture due to fastest means of communication. This shift of culture has created a lasting effect in developing cultures of Asia. Emphasis of media on an extra skinny and underweight model as an ideal figure is causing a distress and psychological disruption in eating behavior of young boys and girls. In the whole course of life, we are conditioned to turn to food for pleasure and reinforcement. It is surprising that these reinforcements become hazardous in the college years. The evidence comes from the fact that after obesity and asthma, disordered eating is the most common chronic illness among adolescents and young adults. The study aimed to determine if there was a correlation between two disordered eating behavior and social media.
Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess the disordered eating behavior among the B.Sc. Nursing students, assess the social media usage among the B.Sc. Nursing students, find out correlation between disordered eating behavior and social media usage among the B.Sc. Nursing students, find out the association between disordered eating behavior and selected demographic variables, find out the association between social media usage and selected demographic variables.
Methodology: A quantitative research approach with correlational descriptive design was used to conduct the study on sample of 100 college students which were selected through stratified sampling technique at MMINSR, SKIMS, Soura. The data was collected through EAT-26 scale and self-structured social media usage scale.
Results: Findings revealed that there is a positive correlation between disordered eating behavior and social media (r=0.720,p
Keyword :
Disordered Eating Behavior, Social Media, B.sc. Nursing Students