The present study was conducted to find out the role of parenting styles on symptoms of anxiety, self-esteem and coping strategies among users of social media. The sample consisted of 500 young adults as participants (287 males, 213 females) with the age range of 18-35 years. Convenient sampling was used for the collection of data from different institutes. Demographics of social media usage were used as screening questions. These tools were used to measure how excessive usage of social media affect people’s symptoms of anxiety, self-esteem and coping skills and what is the role of parenting styles in response to these impacts. And to measure what style of parenting is more prevalent among social media users. Pearson product moment correlation, reliability analysis, independent sample t-test analysis, multiple linear regression analysis and one- way ANOVA were used in present study. The results indicate that permissive parenting style is more prevalent among social media users. Negligent parenting style is more prevalent among social media users with high symptoms of anxiety. Permissive parenting style is more prevalent among social media users with high self- esteem. Authoritative parenting style is more prevalent among social media users with effective coping skills. It was also observed that there were direct relationships among social media usage, symptoms of anxiety and self- esteem. It was also concluded that perceived parenting styles are more effective for last born child and for those who use coping strategies more. The finding of this study also shows that social media usage is high among rural areas and among unemployed due to which their anxiety symptoms are also high. The findings of study also concluded that emotional focused coping is high than problem focused coping and avoidant coping. It was also concluded that mostly used social media platforms are WhatsApp and Snapchat. The result also predict that self-esteem will be high with total parental control. This study will help individuals to engage in positive activities of social media usage so that they will not encounter any psychological issues due to excessive social media usage as well as to maintain their self-esteem. This study will also help what coping strategies are more effective for social media users and what type of parenting style is more effective for using coping strategies.

parenting styles, social media usage, symptoms of anxiety, self-esteem & coping strategies.