IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Nongmeikapam Sursen Singh; Dr. Nongmeikapam Premika Devi; Mihir Kumar Thounaojam

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

The Predictive Effects of Social Medias/Online communication on Well–Being among Urban Teenagers of Manipur State in India

Nongmeikapam Sursen Singh, Dr. Nongmeikapam Premika Devi, Mihir Kumar Thounaojam

Abstract :

Manipur is a state situated in the northeast of India and its capital is the city of Imphal. The Manipur state covers an area of 22,327 square kilometers (8,621 sqm) with almost 3million of population with the Meitei, who are majority group of the state, the Pangals/Pangans (Manipuri Muslims), Kuki and Naga people, who speak a variety of Sino–Tibetan languages. The Manipur state has long connected the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China (or East Asia), Siberia,etc. enabling migration of people, cultures, and religions (Naorem Sanajaoba (Editor), Manipur, Past and Present : The Heritage and Ordeals of a Civilization, Volume 4). In this paper, we select the sample only from the urban areas of the state, and we proposed two hypotheses to better understand the effects of social media like online communication on subjective well–being with a sample of Manipur State urban teenagers (n = 190). The results of liner regression analysis found that social media like online communication was positively related to urban teenagers’ subjective well–being. For boys, the coefficient of determination of online communication on subjective well–being was .143, and for girls the coefficient of determination was .040, indicating that urban boys benefit more from online communication than do urban girls