IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319-1775 Online 2320-7876

Impact of Social Media during Covid-19 Pandemic

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Dr Meghna Aggarwal

Abstract

The Government of India was forced to impose lockdown during ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. Most of the people found themselves in catch-22 situation to reduce their social relations drastically. The present study investigates about the role of social media to mitigate negative impact during Covid19 outbreak. The data was collected by providing a weblink of google forms on various Whatsapp groups. The individual respondent had been used and 60 respondents were selected to collect data. With the help of Cronbach’s Alpha test, it is found that various items of questionnaire is highly reliable. Cluster analysis and regression analysis was carried out to know the perception of online-users’ towards the impact of psychological first aid (PFA) made by social media on community resilience during covid-19 pandemic. The Regression analysis concluded that there was a significant impact of independent variable .i.e. PFA effect of social media on community resilience.

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