Abstract: Selfie’s are self-portrait taken to admire the excessive pride in one’s own appearance. When these selfie’s are taken persistently in increased numbers with futile efforts to stop taking them is called as “SELFIE ADDICTION”. There are lot more things related to selfie has come like selfie status, selfie stick, selfie tv show, selfie song, selfie app, selfie quotes etc. According to American psychiatric association actually confirmed that taking selfies is a mental disorder, going as far as to term the condition “selfitis”. The American Psychiatric Association defines it as “the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy and has categorized it into three levels: borderline, acute and chronic. But there are no published article on psychometric scale for assessing the level of selfie addiction in India. We have published a psychometric scale to assess the level of selfie addiction using 10 items and validated the scale by content validity index. Similarly an author Michael Daws warns the people by writing an article on selfies can harm you according to researchers. He has quoted that many instances where people ended up their life by trying to take a very risky selfies. It seems that people are so obsessed to take selfies. Selfie addiction also was considered as obsessive compulsive disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (where the sufferer obsesses over perceived flaws with their body.
Title: Self-Impetus to Self Portraits
Author: Saranya Nagalingam, Balaji Arumugam
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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