Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis

Huang, Chiungjung

doi:10.1089/cyber.2016.0758

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“…Feeling emotionally isolated from existing networks is common among YAs, and whether current social media help or exacerbate negative feelings is highly debated. Critics of social media note that spending more time with online social networks is associated with negative physiological well‐being, including loneliness and depression . Proponents of social media have shown that online social support (eg, via Facebook) can uniquely contribute to well‐being and social connectedness, especially among those who more readily express their true self online and those unable to receive face‐to‐face support .…”

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Peer‐to‐peer connections: Perceptions of a social support app designed for young adults with cancer

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Objective: Social support is a critical, yet frequently unmet, need among young adults (YAs) with cancer. YAs desire age-appropriate resources to connect with peers.Peer-to-peer mobile apps are promising interventions to provide social support. Peerto-peer apps will be more effective if development incorporates users' input for whether app designs (look and function) afford meaningful connections. Methods:We interviewed 22 YAs to assess perceptions of a peer-to-peer app at a YA cancer convention in April 2017.Results: Participants were an average age of 29, mostly female (77%), white (73%), and well educated (68% with 4-year college degree or higher). Most participants expressed interested in using an app to connect with YAs, but preferences varied by prevalence or rarity of one's cancer diagnosis. YAs shared trade-offs for profile anonymity versus profiles with more personal information, requests for filter options to connect for varying support needs, and desires for tailored messaging and chat room features (eg, topic-specific and search capabilities). Conclusion:Findings demonstrate the promise of apps to fulfill YA cancer survivors' unmet peer support needs and provide guidance for app optimization. Clinical implications:Peer-to-peer support apps should be designed so users can control their identity and customize features for meaningful connections. KEYWORDS cancer, eHealth, interactive design, mobile app intervention, oncology, social networking, social support, user experience, user interface

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“…The authors concluded that the inconsistency across studies and lack of common themes or reproducible findings when varying measures of SNS use were employed suggested that any association between social media and depression is likely to be conditional on a number of moderating factors and sensitive to variations in usage patterns, pre‐existing vulnerabilities, and context. More recently, Huang () performed a meta‐analysis across 67 independent samples (61 studies), which included a mix of adolescents and young adults ( N = 19,652). They reported that the mean correlation between time spent on social networking sites (SNS) and psychological well‐being (comprised of self‐esteem, life satisfaction, loneliness, and depression) was r = −0.07 (95% CIs = −.04 to −.09), with associations for loneliness and depression that ranged from r’ s = −0.08 and −.11, respectively.…”

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Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions

Odgers

Jensen

2020

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Adolescents are spending an increasing amount of their time online and connected to each other via digital technologies. Mobile device ownership and social media usage have reached unprecedented levels, and concerns have been raised that this constant connectivity is harming adolescents’ mental health. This review synthesized data from three sources: (a) narrative reviews and meta‐analyses conducted between 2014 and 2019, (b) large‐scale preregistered cohort studies and (c) intensive longitudinal and ecological momentary assessment studies, to summarize what is known about linkages between digital technology usage and adolescent mental health, with a specific focus on depression and anxiety. The review highlights that most research to date has been correlational, focused on adults versus adolescents, and has generated a mix of often conflicting small positive, negative and null associations. The most recent and rigorous large‐scale preregistered studies report small associations between the amount of daily digital technology usage and adolescents’ well‐being that do not offer a way of distinguishing cause from effect and, as estimated, are unlikely to be of clinical or practical significance. Implications for improving future research and for supporting adolescents’ mental health in the digital age are discussed.

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“…Despite the positive outcomes of online interaction, it may be linked to negative impacts on well-being [34]. Ultimately, a design that promotes positive wellbeing can support users values, e.g.…”

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When People are Problematically Attached to Social Media: How Would the Design Matter?

Altuwairiqi

Arden‐Close

Bolat

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

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Social technology, in particular, social media has increasingly become part of individual's life. People rely on social media interaction to relate with other people and satisfy their leisure or behavioural support purposes. Features such as those presented in the Honeycomb ecology, e.g. sharing, profiling and reputation, are used as means to that end. Recent designs of technology embed social features in them, enabling people to talk to the machine and interact with it as a sentient being, e.g. chatbot and robots, or use it as a mediator for social interaction, e.g. Social Internet of Things (SIoT). However, we argue that over-reliance on social media may result in a problematic attachment to it leading to a negative impact on users' wellbeing. We conduct a multi-stages study to explore the negative psychological states that social media features can trigger. We mainly employ diary studies trying to increase the ecological validity of our data. We also discuss the enrichment of social media with tools to aid people in staying in control of their attachment and the risks such tools can introduce to user experience as well as their behaviour change process.

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Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis

Cited by 299 publications

References 51 publications

Peer‐to‐peer connections: Perceptions of a social support app designed for young adults with cancer

Peer‐to‐peer connections: Perceptions of a social support app designed for young adults with cancer

Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions

When People are Problematically Attached to Social Media: How Would the Design Matter?

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