{"title":"A study on the effect of 13 Reasons Why on young adults with low self-esteem","authors":"P. Samuel Duraivel, R. Lavanya","doi":"10.5897/jmcs2019.0655","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The study was designed to examine the effect of 13 Reasons Why on 216 young adults with low self-esteem. Survey method was used to obtain the responses from the samples, before and after watching 13 Reasons Why. The findings of the study revealed that, 13 Reasons Why improved self-esteem in the female samples alone. No improvement in self-esteem was observed in the male samples. \n \n \n \n Key words: Thirteen reasons why, low self-esteem, self-improvement.","PeriodicalId":126106,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Communication Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Media and Communication Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jmcs2019.0655","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The study was designed to examine the effect of 13 Reasons Why on 216 young adults with low self-esteem. Survey method was used to obtain the responses from the samples, before and after watching 13 Reasons Why. The findings of the study revealed that, 13 Reasons Why improved self-esteem in the female samples alone. No improvement in self-esteem was observed in the male samples.
Key words: Thirteen reasons why, low self-esteem, self-improvement.