📱 Social Media Addiction & Its Effects on Mental Health 😵‍💫

📌 Overview

This project investigates the impact of excessive social media use on mental health and sleep patterns. Using MySQL, I cleaned and analyzed a dataset to uncover patterns, including a strong negative correlation between time spent on social media and well-being.

🔍 Key Findings

• Negative correlation between app usage and mental health scores.
• Increased screen time linked to sleep disturbances.
• Data cleaning included handling duplicates, missing values, and correcting wrong entries.

🏗️ Project Structure

📂 Social-Apps-Addiction/

├── 📄 README.md # Project documentation / # Summary

├── 📄 Students Social Media Addiction.csv # Raw data source

├── 📄 Syntax-Data Cleaning and Correlation.sql / # Cleaning queries / # Correlation queries / # Conclusion

├── 📄 Data_Cleaned.sql/ # Processed outputs

🧹 Data Cleaning Steps

Understanding the Dataset

A Quality Checks

• Checking for duplicates

• How many distinct different values per Column

• Checking for Missing Data (NULLs)

• Checking for missing data per columns

• Checking for wrong data (age)

B Run Summary Queries

📊 Correlation Analysis

• Correlation daily usage vs mental health

• Correlation daily usage vs sleep quality

📝 Conclusion

This analysis highlights the risks of social media addiction, showing measurable declines in mental well-being and sleep quality as usage increases.