SELFITIS BEHAVIOUR AMONG NURSING STUDENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Author Name: 1. Anjali Bhardwaj 2. Annu kumari 3. Anchal Sharma 4. Aruna Sharma 5. Anjali Thakur

Volume/Issue: 02/08

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/02.2022-27583771/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Nursing Tutor, Akal college of Nursing, Barusahib, H.P, India
2. -5 BSc. Nursing Fourth Year Students, Akal College of Nursing, Baru sahib, H.P, India

ABSTRACT

Photography was used as a tool to store the memories for lifetime. Technology has helped people to develop from vivid memories by printing photos to instant photographs. Selfie taking eventually came with this technology and it made the people so crazy that recently APA declared selfitis a new mental disorder.1 Today, we all might have seen people taking selfies in places like a parks parties, metro stations, famous places etc. So what drives this behaviour and how much extreme of this behaviour is considered as selfie syndrome. Thus we thought to do a study to assess the selfitis behaviour to get information how much people have become addicted to selfie taking. The aim of the study is to assess the selfitis Behaviour among nursing students. Quantitative Descripitive research study was carried out in selected Akal college of nursing baru sahib, Distt. Sirmour, H.P. Convenient sampling selection technique was used to select 120 nursing students studying in Akal College of Nursing. Data was collected using standardized selfitis behaviour scale and then data analysis was done by using Descriptive and inferential methods on SPSS. Majority of nursing students of Akal College of Nursing i.e 108 (90%) nursing students had moderate selfitis behaviour followed by 7 (5.83%) of mild selfitits and 5(4.16%) nursing student had mild severe selfitis behaviour. Age was found highly significant with chi square value 13.54 at df 2 with p value 0.001. Occupation of father is also significant with chi value 13.103 at df 6 with p value 0.041. Study concluded that selfitis behaviour can be seen in most of the nursing students and selfie taking has become a vogue in young generation. It is indispensable to aware the nursing students regarding this selfitis behaviour. We should conduct some educational programmes to prevent this behaviour among nursing students so that they can better serve community people as well as they could also educate and prevent others from selfitis.

Key words: Selfitis, behaviour, nursing students