Abstract

With the increasing technologies and every information being just a click away people have started to lose the physical touch and have been continuously moving towards shortcuts and easy accessibilities, which has been leading to the creation of discrepancies. The objective of this research is to study whether the discrepancy between Real Self and Virtual self influence on college student’s Self-Esteem. Discrepancy between Real Self and Virtual self scale was developed based on review of literature and The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used to measure self esteem. A survey research questionnaire was used to collect data. Total of 209 participants were taken as sample from different colleges. Pearson product moment correlation and independent t- test was used to analyze the data. The major findings of this research were that the discrepancy between real self and virtual self leads to lower self-esteem among college students. The research will implicate to enhance college students self esteem.

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