Psychopathological Consequences Related to Problematic Instagram Use Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Gender

Abstract

In a minority of cases, problematic use of technology can negatively impact on adolescents and impair some aspects of their social, emotional, and psychological development. The purpose of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of problematic Instagram use (PIU) on different psychopathological outcomes including loneliness, depression, anxiety, and social anxiety via body image dissatisfaction (BID). Additionally, moderating role of gender on the relationships among variables was investigated. A total of 491 adolescents (M age = 15.92 years, SD age = 1.07; range = 14 to 19 years) were recruited for the study to complete a questionnaire that included the relevant assessment tools for the aforementioned variables. Mediation and moderation analyses showed that among male adolescents, PIU was directly associated with loneliness, depression, general anxiety, and social anxiety and BID partially mediated these associations. Among females, PIU was directly associated with depression and indirectly with general anxiety and social anxiety via BID. Gender significantly moderated the direct relationships of PIU with loneliness, general anxiety, and social anxiety. PIU was directly associated with loneliness, general anxiety, and social anxiety among males only, whereas among females, PIU was indirectly associated with general and social anxiety via BID but was not related to loneliness. Results of this study indicate that PIU has different negative psychological effects on male and female adolescents and that BID appears to be one explanatory factor for these impairments especially among females.

Development and Validation of the Mukbang Addiction Scale

“…The BFAS was chosen because it assesses a behaviour within social media platforms (like mukbang watching), has been widely used, and has been validated in several languages (Andreassen et al 2013;Phanasathit et al 2015;Pontes et al 2016;Wang et al 2015;Yurdagül et al 2019). The BFAS was also used to develop the MAS because of its brevity and sound theoretical basis that reflects core components of behavioural addiction (Griffiths 2005), which presumes that behavioural addictions are a biopsychosocial phenomenon comprising six core components: salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, conflict, and relapse (Griffiths 2005).…”

Essa eu vou postar: Explorando as relações entre narcisismo, uso do Instagram e a moderação da autoestima

“…As evidências empíricas são consistentes ao apontar que o uso problemático do Instagram pode estar relacionado a problemas como ansiedade, depressão e solidão (Yurdagül, Kircaburun, Emirtekin, Wang, & Griffiths, 2019), além de a exposição frequente a imagens idealizadas levar os usuários a terem um decréscimo na auto avaliação de atratividade, contribuindo para o aumento do mal-estar psicológico (Sherlock & Wagstaff, 2018). Ademais, estudar o comportamento nas redes sociais é fundamental, na medida em que os perfis em tais redes refletem os reais traços de O personalidade das pessoas (Back et al, 2010…”

“…A busca por popularidade e destaque nas redes sociais leva a um uso cada vez mais intenso (refletido na preocupação em obter curtidas e visualizações como uma forma de aprovação social), e isso seria uma forma dos narcisistas compensarem a baixa autoestima (March & McBean, 2018). É importante ressaltar que em razão desse uso intenso, narcisistas com baixa autoestima podem ser um grupo de risco para terem problemas de depressão, ansiedade e solidão em razão do uso problemático do Instagram (Yurdagül et al, 2019). Por exemplo, predizer o tipo de conteúdo postado por narcisistas nas redes sociais ou mesmo desenvolver um estudo qualitativo buscando apreender as motivações para fazer uso de tal rede social.…”

Social Media Usage, Self-Presentation, Narcissism, and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Instagram Addiction: An Intercultural Comparison

“…On the other hand, there is a connection between the use and addiction of Instagram and the psychological characteristics of the person (Holland & Tiggemann, 2017). When the international literature is examined, there are many studies which correlates social network addiction like Instagram with the patterns of use (Balcı & Gölcü, 2013;Kırcaburun & Griffiths, 2018;Kalalo, 2018;Balcı, Bekiroğlu, & Karaman, 2019a), the role of gender (Yurdagül, Kircaburun, Emirtekin, Wang, & Griffiths, 2019), interpersonal competence (Savcı & Aysan, 2018), perceived sense of situation (Kırcaburun & Griffiths, 2019) depression (Kırcaburun, 2016a;Balcı & Baloğlu, 2018;Khattak, Ahmad, & Mohammad, 2017;Blachnio, Przepiorka, & Pantic, 2015;Steers, Wickham, & Acitelli, 2014), loneliness (Özgür, 2013;Savcı & Aysan, 2018;Baltacı, 2019), sleep problems (Vernon, Barber, & Modecki, 2015); personal presentation (Kalalo, 2018), social anxiety (Özgür, 2013;Baltacı, 2019) fear of negative evaluation (Savcı & Aysan, 2018), neuroticism (Balta, Emirtekin, Kircaburun, & Griffiths, 2019), social escape (Gao, Liu, & Li, 2017;Kırcaburun & Griffiths, 2019); happiness and psychological well-being (Baltacı, 2019;Satıcı & Uysal, 2015), reward and punishment (Savcı & Aysan, 2018), five-factor personality traits (Kırcaburun & Griffiths, 2018), and self-esteem (Balcı et al, 2019a;Kırcaburun, Demetrovics, & Tosuntaş, 2019).…”