The Confidence Crisis

Overview

The confidence crisis is all about how the amount of social media teens between the ages of 11-15 spend on social media affects their self confidence. What inspired this project was we wanted to learn more about our peers, and in doing so decided to learn more about how social media affects us and our classmates. Our hypothesis was “teens between the ages of 11-15 spend more time on social media then they will have a lower self confidence than teens that spend less than three hours on social media.” In our experience we created an anonymous test that asked demographic questions such as age, grade, gender, etc. We then asked a series of 20 questions about their confidence based on social media and 4 questions about their confidence in themselves. Based on the data we collected from 117 applicants we that teens that spent more time on social media did have a lower self confidence. This data is important because it can inform teens that social media does affect them and their mental health. Additionally, this can remind teens to be more conscious of the amount of time they spend on social media.

The Confidence Crisis

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