ABSTRACT

Background: Facebook is one of the well-known online platforms being utilized for offering content and media to different users helpfully. In facebook profiles, users impart copious social comparison data passing on mostly positive self-depictions. In this way, long range interpersonal communication locales like facebook give a rich ground to envy which result out as indirect aggression.

Aim: To examine the influence of high facebook usage on social comparison, envy and indirect aggression of university students.

Study Design: Cross-sectional research

Place and Duration of Study: Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab Lahore from 1^st February 2018 to 31^st August 2018.

Methodology: A total of 200 university students of both genders men and women were selected through purposive sampling. The study used quantitative method and data was collected through questionnaires.

Results: The results presented that there were noteworthy positive association amid social comparison, envy and indirect aggression. Moreover, Envy positively predicted indirect aggression along with its subscales (Social exclusionary, Malicious Humor & Guilt Induction).

Conclusion: Social comparison predict envy and indirect aggression positively (malicious humor, guilt induction and social exclusionary). Further results explained that social comparison and envy are the predictors of indirect aggression

Key words: Social comparison, Envy, Indirect aggression, University students, Facebook users