No kidding: selfitis exists and can be a problem

Sometimes one thinks that social networks were created to share photos of faces putting on little bones and images of dishes overflowing with appetizing foods or, better, of faces putting little bones in front of plates overflowing with appetizing foods in the same shot.is to see faces, faces, faces...all of them smiling, as if looking at the smartphone mirror was the height of happiness.And it does not seem that there are so many beautiful and happy people, or maybe yes, that you go Namely.What envy.

Well, what we're going to do: Janarthanan Balakrishnan psychologists from the Thiagarajar School of Management in India; and Mark D.Griffiths, of the Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have published an article in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction entitled 'A study on' Selfitis', which names this mania of going around the world taking pictures of oneself, as if beyond our curls the world had been destroyed by that meteorite that never comes.

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This study has been inspired by the news about this supposed disorder that made headlines in 2014. At that time, according to publications of various media, the APA (American Psychological Association) , had cataloged a new mental disorder called Selfie Mental Disorder .The information had a lot of mediatic impact but, as unfortunately so many times, the media swallowed what was just a viral joke, published in Adobo Cronicles, whose motto is your source for news you can't believe .

selfitis among students

Well, it seems that now the thing is serious.To conduct their study, the researchers analyzed the behavior of 225 students in India and classified them as limits, acute and chronic: the three levels of self-esteem in the 2014 midget.

The first-limits-were people who take a minimum amount of three selfies a day, but without sharing them on social networks; the acute ones, subjects who take self-portraits at least three times a day, sharing them on social networks; and lastly, in the group of chronic selfitis, people with an uncontrollable impulse to take selfies were included throughout the day, as well as to share these photos on social networks more than six times a day.

To conduct this study, scientists first detected a set of factors that lead people to turn their camera's lens toward their face.These were:

more narcissistic men

After conducting their surveys, the study's findings indicate that, of the participants, 34% were in the limit category, 40.5% were acute and 25.5% were chronic. Men showed a higher rate of selfitis than women -57.5% compared to 42.5%, respectively-, and it was also detected that younger people in the age group of 16-20 years were the most likely to suffer from this disorder. 9% of the participants took more than 8 selfies a day and 25% shared at least 3 of those selfies on social networks.

search for attention and integration in the group

Researchers discovered that the typical people affected by 'heritis' were people defined by the attention search , often lacking in confidence in themselves, and waiting increase their social position and feel part of a group by constantly publishing images of themselves.

"Typically, those who suffer from lack of self-confidence and seek to 'fit in' with those around them, may show similar symptoms to other potentially addictive behaviors," Balakrishnan told The New York Post."Now that existence of this disorder seems to have been confirmed, new research is expected to be carried out to understand more about how and why people develop this potentially obsessive behavior and what can be done to help the most affected people."

In any case, we will have to wait for new studies with larger samples to confirm These conclusions. We will wait for you by taking selfies to kill time.