Multimedia has made our lives happier and more relaxed, and we can't imagine a day without it. Although the use of multimedia is important to make it simpler, repetitive and needless use leads to addiction and makes it more difficult. Determine the degree of teenage multimedia addiction. To investigate the impact of multimedia on teenage personality formation. To provide a need-based intervention module for adolescents who are addicted to multimedia. To test the effectiveness of the developed intervention on adolescents. to the results, the majority of males (41.54 percent) were addicted to two types of gadgets, while only 6.15 percent were addicted to three or more types of gadgets. This table further shows that the majority of teens are addicted to at least two types of mobile devices. Personality Dimension of Neuroticism was significantly and positively correlated with Multimedia addiction, while other Personality Dimensions such as Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were significantly and negatively correlated with Multimedia addiction.

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