Social media use, social displacement, and well-being

JA Hall, D Liu - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Social displacement is the proposition that time spent on social media replaces time spent in
face-to-face interaction, particularly with close friends and family, thus reducing well-being …

[HTML][HTML] “Using digital media or slee**… that is the question”. A meta-analysis on digital media use and unhealthy sleep in adolescence

M Pagano, V Bacaro, E Crocetti - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
This systematic review with meta-analysis aims to examine the relation between different
aspects of digital media use and sleep health patterns. Eligible studies had to be …

Sweet escape: The role of empathy in social media engagement with human versus virtual influencers

A Mirowska, J Arsenyan - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
Virtual influencers engage in emotional sharing to gain and keep followers. However, given
that many people use social media for diversion purposes, this emotional sharing may …

[HTML][HTML] Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.

S Steinsbekk, J Nesi, L Wichstrøm - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Concerns have been raised that social media use causes mental health
problems in adolescents, but findings are mixed, and effects are typically small. The present …

Does social media use increase depressive symptoms? A reverse causation perspective

A Hartanto, FYX Quek, GYQ Tng, JC Yong - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
According to the World Health Organization (1), 264 million individuals worldwide suffer from
depression—a condition characterized by feelings of low self-worth, impaired concentration …

Dynamics of adolescents' smartphone use and well-being are positive but ephemeral

L Marciano, CC Driver, PJ Schulz, AL Camerini - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Well-being and smartphone use are thought to influence each other. However, previous
studies mainly focused on one direction (looking at the effects of smartphone use on well …

[HTML][HTML] The complex association between social media use intensity and adolescent wellbeing: A longitudinal investigation of five factors that may affect the …

M Boer, GWJM Stevens, C Finkenauer… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study examined five possible explanations for the mixed findings on the
association between adolescents' social media use (SMU) intensity and wellbeing …

A need for considering digital inequality when studying social media use and well-being

M Büchi, E Hargittai - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital inequality scholarship has consistently found that people from varying societal
positions experience digital media in their lives in divergent ways. Therefore, the growing …

A meta-analysis of the effects of social media exposure to upward comparison targets on self-evaluations and emotions

CA McComb, EJ Vanman, SJ Tobin - Media Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Social media have become a pervasive part of contemporary culture and are an essential
part of the daily lives of an increasing number of people. Its popularity has brought unlimited …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of seeing and posting photos on mental health and body satisfaction: A panel study among Dutch and Japanese adolescents

NAJDB de Vaate, J Veldhuis, EA Konijn - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
A vivid scholarly debate addresses the extent to which social media usage is detrimental for
adolescents' mental health and body satisfaction. The current study aims to advance the …