📄 Abstract
The rapid expansion of social media has significantly transformed the way young people communicate, access information, form relationships, and respond to workplace demands. Although social media provides important benefits such as networking, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and professional development, its intensive and habitual use may also influence behavioural patterns associated with patience, emotional self-control, attention, and interpersonal interaction. This conceptual paper examines the relationship between social media use, patience, emotional self-control, and workplace behaviour among youth in Sirsa District, Haryana, from a Human Resource Management (HRM) perspective. The paper is based entirely on secondary sources, including academic literature, theoretical perspectives, research reports, and scholarly discussions on social media use, digital behaviour, self-regulation, emotional intelligence, workplace behaviour, and youth psychology. The paper argues that repeated exposure to rapid, highly stimulating, and immediately rewarding digital content may contribute to expectations of instant responses and immediate gratification. These behavioural tendencies may influence patience, frustration tolerance, emotional regulation, and the ability to manage delayed outcomes in workplace settings. However, social media use is not inherently harmful. Its impact depends upon the intensity, purpose, nature, and manner of use. Professional, educational, and constructive social media engagement may strengthen communication and networking, whereas excessive passive consumption and compulsive checking may be associated with reduced emotional self-control and impatience. The paper proposes a conceptual framework in which the intensity and nature of social media use influence patience and emotional self-control, which in turn affect workplace behaviour. From an HRM perspective, the issue has implications for recruitment, employee development, emotional intelligence training, digital well-being, employee engagement, conflict management, and organisational culture. The paper proposes three research objectives and three hypotheses for future empirical investigation among youth in Sirsa District, Haryana. It concludes that organisations should not adopt a simplistic anti-social-media approach. Instead, HR professionals should promote responsible digital behaviour, self-regulation, emotional intelligence, and healthy boundaries between digital engagement and workplace responsibilities.
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📚 How to Cite:
Neha Arora , SOCIAL MEDIA USE, PATIENCE, AND EMOTIONAL SELF-CONTROL AMONG YOUTH IN SIRSA DISTRICT, HARYANA: AN HRM PERSPECTIVE , Volume 12 , Issue 7, July 2026, EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) , Pages: 970 - 978 , DOI: https://doi.org/10.36713/epra28758