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Anxiety Disorder, and Traits of Emotional Intelligence  \nMuhammad Faisal Farid*, Hina Jalal** and Sara Iqbal***  \nAbstract  \nSocial media propagation carries the capacity for global communication and societal wellbeing, digital trading, entertainment, and the centre of engagement. The consequences of overengagement in social media lead to depression, stress, and low performance. This study unfolds tendencies of excessive use of social media towards general anxiety and individuals’ traits of emotional intelligence. The researcher adopted a questionnaire to collect data from participants (n = 340) through the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale by Spitzer et al. (2006), Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Short Form by Cooper & Petrides (2010), Social Media Addiction Scale by Young (2009), and Social Media Engagement Questionnaire (SMEQ) by Przybylski, Murayama, DeHaan, and Gladwell (2013) . The findings demonstrated that social media addiction diffuses general anxiety disorder with positive and strong relationships. A weak association is found between obsessive use of social media applications and emotional intelligence. Though, Social media engagement lightens emotional intelligence traits of personality at a moderate level. An obsessive behaviour towards social media can predict general anxiety disorder more than emotional intelligence. While social media engagement with proper management can benefit emotional intelligence.  \nKeywords: Social Media Usage, Addiction, Psychological Process, Emotional Intelligence, General Anxiety Disorder  \n*Assistant Professor, Division of Education, University of Education, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan. Email: [dr.faisal.farid@ue.edu.pk](dr.faisal.farid@ue.edu.pk)  \n** PhD Education, Visiting faculty, University of Education, Faisalabad Campus, Email: [hinansari23@yahoo.com](hinansari23@yahoo.com)  \n*** MPhil Education, University of Education, Faisalabad Campus, Email: [sarahiqbal202@gmail.com](sarahiqbal202@gmail.com)  \nIntroduction  \nThe rise of communication technology has facilitated better services and made life easier. This growing internet technological assistance has become a widespread product of behavioural addictions. Obsessive use of social media captivates behaviour and psychological patterns of a person. Social media usage became an important driver to spread information in every field of life. While this domain affects social interaction, emotional consequences, and psychological processes (Guazzini, et al., 2022; Rajesh & Rangaiah, 2020) resulting craving to it. Social media has an important place in our daily routine. It identifies information, status, and news sharing ona global platform. Within positive changes, this “Munchausen by Internet” have critical misinformation and disinformation influence on social media users (Guazzini, et al., 2022) . Over possessive social media usage, disseminates the flow of news. Few studies investigated the social media effect on psychological diagnosis. Internet addictions like excessive online gaming, net compulsions, spreading (dis)information, gaining attention, profile consciousness, fake news abundance, cyber-sexual addiction, and cyber-relationship (Arness, & Ollis, 2022; Guazzini, et al., 2022) have their negative consequences. Correspondingly, social media obsession is considered as sub-division of excessive use of internet. The symptoms of social media addiction relate to preoccupations and excessive use with mood swinging and losing control (Abi-Jaoude et al., 2020; Kircaburun, 2018; Ryan et al., 2016) . There are several social media applications now a days. The largest platform of global village is manifested through Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, and Tik-Tok. Social media addiction can be defined as over and uncontrolled engagement in using social media that impairs the state of wellbeing (Andreassen et al., 2016; Griffiths &Kuss, 2017; Rajesh & Rangaiah, 2020)","cbCaisQQN0gt1cv8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisQQN0gt1cv8","pdf",373398,15,"English","# Introduction\n# Methodology\n# Results and Findings\n# Discussion","[{\"question\":\"What is the study investigating regarding social media use?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines excessive use of social media and how it relates to general anxiety and emotional intelligence traits.\"},{\"question\":\"How many participants were included and what measures were used?\",\"answer\":\"Data were collected from 340 participants using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale, a Trait Emotional Intelligence questionnaire, and scales assessing social media addiction and engagement.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the key relationship found between social media addiction and general anxiety disorder?\",\"answer\":\"Social media addiction shows positive and strong relationships with general anxiety disorder.\"},{\"question\":\"How does social media engagement relate to emotional intelligence traits?\",\"answer\":\"Social media engagement lightens emotional intelligence traits at a moderate level, and proper management may benefit emotional intelligence.\"}]","Relationship between Social Media, General Anxiety Disorder, and Traits of Emotional Intelligence | PDF",1792082781,38]