With the increasing technologies and every information being just a click away
people have started to lose the physical touch and have been continuously moving
towards shortcuts and easy accessibilities, which has been leading to the creation of
discrepancies. The objective of this research is to study whether the discrepancy
between Real Self and Virtual self influence on college student’s Self-Esteem.
Discrepancy between Real Self and Virtual self scale was developed based on
review of literature and The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used to measure self
esteem. A survey research questionnaire was used to collect data. Total of 209
participants were taken as sample from different colleges. Pearson product moment
correlation and independent t- test was used to analyze the data. The major findings
of this research were that the discrepancy between real self and virtual self leads to
lower self-esteem among college students. The research will implicate to enhance
college students self esteem.
The effects of ideal-real self discrepancy and self-focus on inferiority feeling
