No full-text available
To read the full-text of this research,
you can request a copy directly from the authors.
Selfie Syndrome: A Disease of New Era
Abstract
Over a period of time, technological advancement has given us new addiction disorders. Last two decades were known for computer addiction disorder and internet addiction disorders. Smartphone has included in our daily life that without which we cannot survive. Many of today generation Smartphone " s are equipped with high resolution camera, which we call it as " selfie " camera. Though people were fond of taking photographs of their own and others since many decades, with selfie camera it has led to an extreme level. It is coupled with posting the selfie photographs on social networking sites. Further they are waiting for comments and opinions of friends and others. This has led to a chain of reactions leading to a complex addiction disorder which we may easily be called as " Selfie addiction disorder/Selfie syndrome " .
... Selfie addiction is a new pathology, often related to past bullying and low self-esteem. Behavioural scientists are beginning to consider the compulsion to take selfies as a serious mental health problem, although precise mechanism of selfie syndrome is not known but it is assumed to be due to imbalance between the excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters (Sai-Krishna, Sai-Krishna & Krishna, 2016). Selfie syndrome reflects a combination of the wide spectrum of varying degree of Neuro-psychiatric disorders. ...
... This syndrome is characterized by most of the time sticking on the social media network via face book, Twitter, Instagram, whatsapp, etc (Sai-Krishna, Sai-Krishna & Krishna, 2016). Individuals get easily distracted from their important official work with less productivity and poor performance in the work place, job dissatisfaction, unseen stress, peer pressure, unhealthy family relations, marital conflicts etc (Sai-Krishna, Sai-Krishna & Krishna, 2016). It may lead to orthopaedics complications viz, computer related work injuries, cervical spondylitis, low back pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, carpel tunnel, tennis elbow, frozen shoulder etc due to prolonged use of the thumbs for typing, awkward posture of the body while using the phone or computer for social media and even catastrophic road traffic accidents while using phones during driving (WHO, 2017) Recently, photo sharing has become a significant part of the online social activities and experience. ...
This study examined personality traits and narcissistic as predictors of pathological selfie among undergraduates of university of Ilorin. An ex post-facto design using survey method was adopted while three hundred respondents (110 males and 190 females), participated in the study. Their age ranged from 16 years to 35years. A questionnaire pack which included-the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-16 (NPI-16); the Big Five Inventory (BFI); and Selfie Behaviour Scale (SBS) was utilized. The results of t-test revealed that gender do not significantly influence pathological selfies (t=.763; df= 298; p>.05). However, there was a significant difference in the participants type of phones on selfie pathology (t (120)=-3.01, p<.05); respondents with smart phones (M=56.89, SD=10.25) significantly reported higher scores on pathological selfies compare to respondents with non-smart phones (M=53.23, SD=9.75). Multiple regression result showed that extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism and narcissism jointly predicted pathological selfies (R=.49; R2=.29; F(6, 293)=15.09; p<.01). However, extraversion (β =.20; t =2.91; p<.05); agreeableness (β= -.29; t =-4.03; p<.01) conscientiousness (β=.24; t=3.90; p<.01); neuroticism (β = .19; t=3.91; p<.05) and narcissism (β=.22; t =3.91; p<.05) had independent significant prediction of pathological selfies. It is recommended that experts should pay attention to personality as a serious factor to be considered in alleviating selfie pathology and unhealthy smartphones usage among the consumers.
... In the year 2016, previous authors 75 ...
Objectives: to examine the relationship between personality traits (Neuroticism, Openness, Consciousness, Agreeableness and Extraversion) and selfie addiction among Lebanese adults.
Design/Methods: A cross-sectional study, carried out between August 2017 and April 2018, enrolled 1206 community dwelling participants.
Results: Female gender (ORa=2.79) and higher neuroticism (ORa=1.01) were significantly associated with moderate vs low selfie taking. Higher openness (ORa=0.96) was significantly associated with low selfie taking. Female gender (ORa=3.42) was significantly associated with intense vs low selfie taking, whereas higher age (ORa=0.93) and higher conscientiousness (ORa=0.99) were significantly associated with lower intense selfie taking.
Practice implications: This relationship can serve as a basis for other studies to better understand this new phenomenon and, later, to draw attention to a “selfie” practice that can deviate from the norm.
... The term Selfie is defined as "A self-portrait photograph, usually taken with a digital camera or a camera phone held in hand or supported by a selfie stick." 9 According to Google company statistics in 2016, over 24 billion selfies were uploaded on Google photographs in a period of 1 year. Interestingly, it was found that more than 1 million selfies are clicked per day and more than 17 million selfies are taken and uploaded on social media each week. ...
Background:
India is the country with the highest number of selfie-related deaths. However, little is known whether this selfie craze contributes toward the behavioral changes and desire to undergo cosmetic procedures & surgery.
Aim:
To analyse how taking, altering and posting selfies on social media, affects individuals' self-esteem, confidence, body image perception and mood in the Indian population. And to see whether the practice of taking selfies leads to the promotion of self-image dysmorphia and an increased desire to undergo cosmetic surgical procedures.
Methods:
A total of 300 participants from four Indian cities (75 each from Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai) were included in the study. The study experimentally tested whether taking and posting selfie, with and without photograph retouching, elicits changes in mood, body image, and desire to undergo cosmetic surgery among young men and women.
Results:
A significant increase in the level of social anxiety (P < .004), feeling of decrease in confidence (P < .002), feeling of decrease in physical attractiveness (P < .001) and the desire to undergo cosmetic surgery (P < .001) was noted in the experimental group. Also, all the findings were higher in women compared with men.
Conclusion:
This first of its kind experimental study in the Indian population highlights the deleterious effects of uploading selfies on human mankind and well-being. The prevalent obsessively looks-oriented culture is engulfing our youth's innocence and warrants immediate attention. Few steps taken in the right direction and at the right time can save us from the disastrous effects of this selfie craze in future.
In whichever way the end presents itself, with slow signs or suddenly, there are various ways of dealing with it. They all begin with one choice: to make the fact public, or to withdraw from the world and hide behind the scenes. Many people live their entire life trying to appear and be protagonists. Now the final part of one’s life can also be staged: anyone can see the videos and the photos posted online and express their opinion with a like. Until 2005 books and films were ways to communicate the end, and then the YouTube era started. In September 2007, Randy Pausch’s lecture Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams was uploaded to YouTube and was viewed by millions of people. Others choose different paths: there are those who withdraw and simply defend their own privacy. A very different attitude is that of people who decide not to speak, write, publish or film, not to communicate this experience, but search for a more discrete way to near the end, sharing the journey with only a few intimate friends and relatives. Death and dying are individual the way life and living are, and in this sense we may quote the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘God, give us each our own death, the dying that proceeds from each of our lives’.
Since contemporary technological developments led to an explosion in different media of communication allowing individuals to actively create and publish whatever content they desire, scholars have been investigating trends, activities and implications thereof linked to this advancement. Whereas the literature on selfie is robust, little is known about motivations for taking selfies from a Nigerian perspective. Yet, the rate at which young Nigerians take and share selfies is both intense and passionate suggesting possible obsession, warranting the need to investigate if this critical segment of the national population is aware and mindful of mental illnesses associated with compulsive and excessive selfie-taking and sharing. Consequently, this study investigated motivations that drive young Nigerians' selfie-taking and sharing habit, including gender disparity associated with the activity. A total of 487 questionnaires and 21 interviews, administered on young Nigerians between the ages of 16 and 24 from two tertiary institutions revealed that a substantial number of young Nigerians take, store and share selfies habitually. The study established that young female Nigerians take more selfie than their male counterparts while there is no gender disparity noticed in sharing. An overwhelming majority (85.7 percent) confessed to being obsessed with selfie-taking and sharing, while a corresponding percentage of respondents are not aware of the health-related dangers associated with the activity. In the light of these findings, coupled with the increasing rate of depression and suicide among young people, we conclude that the Selfitis disposition observed in a sizeable percentage of young Nigerians is ill-motivated and requires some urgent intervention.
The problematic connection between identity and its mediated representation is the linchpin around which the film world of The King of Comedy (Scorsese 1982) revolves. While its spatial structure is based on the contrast between anonymous urban places and the symbolically central television space, its philosophical discourse rests on the contrast between the two categories of fans and stars and on the concept of identity as representation. Rupert Pupkin and the other inhabitants of the film world—restless individuals who spend their lives outside the television studios, away from spotlights and off the screens—believe they can worthily exist only under those lights and through those screens. As Rupert states when he is finally able to conquer his own television space, ‘I figure it this way. Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime’.
Between 5 to 10% of the population experience depression at any time in any year, needing psychiatric or psychosocial intervention. The World Health Organization has reported that depression's financial burden globally ranked fourth in 2000, and will increase by 2020 to be the second most costly disease. This paper focus on the range of non-drug strategies available to patients, other than prescribed pharmacological treatments, which could be helpful in treating depression.
The authors hypothesized that both narcissism and high self-esteem are associated with positive self-views but each is associated with positivity in different domains of the self. Narcissists perceive themselves as better than average on traits reflecting an agentic orientation (e.g., intellectual skills, extraversion) but not on those reflecting a communal orientation (e.g., agreeableness, morality).In contrast, high-self-esteem individuals perceive themselves as better than average both on agentic and communal traits. Three studies confirmed the hypothesis.
In Study 1, narcissists rated themselves as extraverted and open to experience but not as more agreeable or emotionally stable. High-self-esteem individuals rated themselves highly on all of these traits except openness.
In Study 2, narcissists (but not high-self-esteem individuals) rated themselves as better than their romantic partners.
In Study 3, narcissists rated themselves as more intelligent, but not more moral, than the average person. In contrast, high-self-esteem individuals viewed themselves as more moral and more intelligent.
Over a period of time, technological advancement has given us new addiction disorders. Last two decades were known for computer addiction disorder and internet addiction disorders. Smartphone has included in our daily life that without which we cannot survive. Many of today generation Smartphone " s are equipped with high resolution camera, which we call it as " selfie " camera. Though people were fond of taking photographs of their own and others since many decades, with selfie camera it has led to an extreme level. It is coupled with posting the selfie photographs on social networking sites. Further they are waiting for comments and opinions of friends and others. This has led to a chain of reactions leading to a complex addiction disorder which we may easily be called as " Selfie addiction disorder/Selfie syndrome " .
This paper intends to use psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him. It takes as its starting-point the way film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle. It is helpful to understand what the cinema has been, how its magic has worked in the past, while attempting a theory and a practice which will challenge this cinema of the past. Psychoanalytic theory is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form.