title: Attitudes Toward Selfie Taking in School-going Adolescents: An Exploratory Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Smartphones have become a necessary evil in our lives. Selfies have become the newest technological fad to take over the youth, due to the wide and easy availability of mobile phones. There is paucity of scientific data on selfies in general, and from our country in particular. This study aimed to analyze the attitudes toward selfie taking, body image acceptance, and narcissism personality traits among an urban school-going population in Mumbai.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred and fifty-two students of 11(th) standard, belonging to an urban Mumbai school, were interviewed in a single centric cross-sectional study. Scales used were - attitude towards selfie-taking questionnaire, body image acceptance, and action questionnaire (BIAAQ) and Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Scores obtained were computed using basic descriptive statistics as well as computerized statistical software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 230 completely filled questionnaires, 54% were males. About 42.6% reported that they regularly clicked selfies of themselves. No gender difference was noticed. On an average, 18.1% girls and 15.2% boys clicked more than 4 selfies/day. The gender difference was statistically not significant (P = 0.5273). Difference in mean BIAAQ between the two genders was noticed to be statistically significant, whereas the NPI scores difference was insignificant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study is a pioneering/novel/innovative work in the field of selfies. It gives us an insight into the youth's viewpoint towards selfies, which was positive in the majority of the population. A worrisome aspect is the higher body image dissatisfaction among girls. Behavioral addictions such as selfies need more focused research in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Era
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Payal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Reetika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dikshit
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Nilesh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Sushma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sonavane
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Anup
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bharati
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Avinash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Sousa
keywords: Adolescents; body image; narcissism; selfie; smartphone