The Neuroscience of Smartphone/Social Media Usage and the Growing Need to Include Methods from ‘Psychoinformatics’

Montag, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_32

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“…Future studies will also need to contrast younger with much older participants. For a more in-depth overview see also Montag (2018). It can be expected that comparable rewarding mechanisms (self-related positive feedback) as observed for receiving a “Like” on Facebook/Instagram may also underlie the appeal of sharing pictures on WeChat.…”

Section: Overview On Previous Empirical Work: Motivations That Drive mentioning

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The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

2018

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With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. Despite its enormous number of users in Asia, WeChat is still not well known in Western countries. Against this background, the present review aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on the functionality of this application, comparison with other popular applications such as Facebook/WhatsApp and previous research. Although WeChat has become an integral part of everyday life for many users, research has only recently begun to examine the impact of this development on the societal and individual levels. The present review summarizes the literature on this topic with a focus on the motives to engage in using the app and potential detrimental effects of excessive use. In the context of the growing popularity and increasing usage times of the app – in particular in Asian countries – future research seems warranted to examine systematically how social media platforms such as WeChat will affect interpersonal communication behavior, well-being, and mental health. The direct comparison of WeChat’s influence on the mentioned variables compared with its competitors Facebook and WhatsApp often used in Western countries will also be of high importance.

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Section: Overview On Previous Empirical Work: Motivations That Drive mentioning

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2018

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“…; DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, 2013) or International Classification of Diseases (11th ed. ; ICD-11;World Health Organization, 2019) even though similarities exist in presenting symptoms (e.g., loss of control, withdrawal-like manifestations) and psychosocial risk factors (Billieux, 2012;Billieux et al, 2015;Montag, 2019;Montag et al, 2016;Panova & Carbonell, 2018;Ryding & Kaye, 2018) between addictive disorders and PSU. Further, use of the term "addiction" is complicated in the context of PSU.…”

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Anxiety sensitivity mediates relations between anxiety (but not depression) and problematic smartphone use severity, adjusting for age and sex, in Chinese adolescents early in the COVID ‐19 pandemic

Hallauer

Rooney

Yang

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Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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Risk factors for problematic smartphone use (PSU) have rapidly become an important area of research due to the prevalence of smartphones and functional impairment associated with PSU. Our aim was to examine relations between established predictors of PSU (depression and anxiety) and a potential mediator of PSU (anxiety sensitivity; AS). Participants ( N = 4752) from junior and senior high schools in Tianjin, China completed a web‐based survey with measures of depression, anxiety, AS, and PSU. Descriptive and inferential analyses revealed significant differences between males and females on depression severity, and between junior and senior high school students on AS and PSU severity. Results of structural equation modeling indicated that anxiety was positively associated with AS when adjusting for depression; and AS was significantly associated with greater PSU severity, adjusting for age and sex. Additionally, AS mediated relations between anxiety and PSU severity. Current findings on AS are consistent with theoretical models of problematic internet use (Interaction of Person‐Affect‐Cognition‐Execution) and previous research linking AS to other kinds of behavioral addictions (e.g., smoking, alcohol use).

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“…Problematic use of social media/messenger app was connected with the change of neurobiological function. Individuals with high levels of addictive social app use were accompanied with low volume of grey matter in the subgenual anterior cingulate and the nucleus accumbens [73,74]. Scholars also found that SUD is associated with cortical areas in the brain due to the use of touch display for a long time with fingers [75].…”

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Smartphone use disorder and future time perspective of college students: the mediating role of depression and moderating role of mindfulness

Zhang

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Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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Background: Smartphone use disorder (SUD) of college students has drawn increasing attention. Although future time perspective (FTP) may be an important protective factor for individual SUD, the moderating and mediating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unknown. We tested the individual roles of depression and mindfulness as moderators of this relationship. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two colleges in Shandong and Chongqing in China using a sample of 1304 college students recruited by stratified cluster sampling. Data were collected through a validated self-report instrument. A moderation-mediation model was constructed, and an SPSS PROCESS macro was used to analyse the data. Results: The correlation analyses showed that FTP was negatively associated with SUD of college students. The mediation model revealed that depression partially mediated the link between FTP and SUD of college students. The moderation-mediation model suggested that mindfulness moderates two direct paths: FTP to depression and depression to SUD. In the first path (FTP to depression), a high level of mindfulness among college students had weakened the relationship between FTP and depression. Here, the relationship is strengthened by a low level of mindfulness. In the second path (depression to SUD), low levels of mindfulness strengthen the link between depression and FTP. In contrast, significant association was not found with high levels of mindfulness. Conclusions: Results suggest that interventions, such as improving the individual level of FTP and mindfulness, should be conducted. These interventions, in turn, help control the level of depression in college students and ultimately decrease their level of SUD.

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The Neuroscience of Smartphone/Social Media Usage and the Growing Need to Include Methods from ‘Psychoinformatics’

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

Anxiety sensitivity mediates relations between anxiety (but not depression) and problematic smartphone use severity, adjusting for age and sex, in Chinese adolescents early in the COVID ‐19 pandemic

Smartphone use disorder and future time perspective of college students: the mediating role of depression and moderating role of mindfulness

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