The Impact of Social Media on the Psychological Well-Being of Generation Z

This study aims to determine the impact of social media use on psychological well-being in generation Z. Subjects in this study are 182 Yogyakarta students aged 19-24 years so that they are included in generation Z. The method used in this study is quantitative descriptive using the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling model (PLS-SEM) and processed in SmartPLS 3. The results of this study show that there is a correlation between social media use and the psychological well-being of generation Z. The variation in psychological well-being is influenced by social media use by 13.5%, while the remaining 86.5% is influenced by other variables that are not included in the model. The conclusion of this study is that the use of social media has a significant effect on the psychological well-being of Generation Z.