• Dr. Payal Kanwar Chandel
• Neelu Gupta

Consuming media has become a daily habit, if not a necessity. Daily morning our eyes open to updates from our friends and family… even those whom we otherwise don’t know. We spent a significant amount of our waking time using one or the other form of media, whatever the purpose may be. What we surf on net has a high impact on the person we become, we are influenced by our peers, by celebrities, by viral trends, and what not. It is like the air we breathe in, its presence can neither be denied nor ignored. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize and manage the emotions of self and others, social media gives us better chances to present ourselves and to understand others. The present study is an attempt to explore the impact of social media usage on the emotional intelligence of an individual. A sample of 1200 students was collected from various colleges of the metropolitan city of Delhi. Emotional intelligence of the subjects was assessed by Dr. S.K. Mangal and Mrs. Shubhra Mangal's Mangal Emotional intelligence inventory (MEII) and time spent on social media was taken to be independent variable along with gender. The results showed that there was no significant difference in internet usage of males and females, also no significant difference was found between emotional intelligence of males and females. The impact of social media usage was seen to be significant only on intrapersonal awareness among all other dimensions and overall emotional intelligence.

Key Words: Social media, emotional intelligence, adolescence, gender

"THE IMPACT OF TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF ADOLOSCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.577-597, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809729.pdf

"THE IMPACT OF TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF ADOLOSCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp577-597, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809729.pdf