Social Media Instagram Addiction and Self-Esteem in High School Students

Abstract

Social media is widely used among middle adolescents. For many middle adolescents, accesing social media has become a daily part of their normal life (Park and Lee, 2014). As a very popular social media throughout the world, instagram famous users are middle adolescents (Clement, 2019). Instagram has an impact on selfesteem, both on positive and negative, but the focus in this study are the negative impact given by Instagram on each individual that can cause someone to become addicted (Andreassen, 2015; Ryan, Chester, Reece, & Xenos, 2014). This study aims to determine the relationship between Instagram social media addiction to selfesteem in high school students. This study involved 87 high school students aged 15-18 years in Jakarta (14 male students and 73 female students). Data is collected using a Social Media Addiction Questionnaire and Selfesteem Scale. Spearman correlation test results are known to have a relationship r = -.234 and p = .029. So that the hypothesis of the relationship between Instagram social media addiction to self-esteem is accepted.