Upward social comparison on mobile social media and depression: The mediating role of envy and the moderating role of marital quality

Wang, Wei; Wang, Mingzhu; Hu, Qian; Wang, Pengcheng; Jiang, Suo

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.173

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“…At the same time, social support on social media does not positively affect mental health. Another mental characteristic, envy, was found to be related to depression and SME [22]. The results supported a positive connection between mobile social media use and depression, which is mediated by envy.…”

Section: Relationships Between Influencing and Responding Variablesmentioning

confidence: 51%

Emotional State and Social Media Experience: A Pandemic Case Study

Bitkina¹,

Park²

2021

Sustainability

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The world has been experiencing an unprecedented global pandemic since December 2019. Lockdowns, restrictions in daily life, and social distancing characterize the new environment in which the world population finds itself, with minor variations depending on the country of residence. Television, social media, and other sources of information tend to influence and provide information about COVID-19 with varying tones. This study investigated the impact of alerts, news, and information about COVID-19 from social and mass media on the emotional state of the people a year and a half after the start of the pandemic. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to 63 participants to assess the relationships between factors such as social media experience, perceived hope, worry, anxiety/depression, attentiveness, trust, health care, health risk, health safety, irritability, mental balance, and emotional state/distress. With the resulting information, a four-factor model was developed to demonstrate the relationships between social media experience, perceived hope, worry, and emotional state/distress. Additionally, a short interview was conducted among the participants in order to collect their opinions and qualitatively analyze them. The developed model demonstrates satisfactory performance characteristics and allows assessment of the delayed influence of incoming information on the people during this unprecedented pandemic.

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Section: Relationships Between Influencing and Responding Variablesmentioning

confidence: 51%

Emotional State and Social Media Experience: A Pandemic Case Study

Bitkina¹,

Park²

2021

Sustainability

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“…Through path analysis, we find that social media activities related to personal and social life increase the effect of stress related to job effort-reward imbalance on health and wellbeing. One of the potential reasons could be social comparisons on social media (68,69,112). This is because when people compare their lives with others on social media, and find themselves not better off in terms of income, reputation and enjoyment, they feel dissatisfied.…”

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“…Through social media activities, individuals make comparisons (67). Subsequently, if individuals find themselves better than others, they feel satisfied, but if they determine their worth as lower than others, they get more depressed (68,69). Secondly, individuals release stress by sharing their feelings of frustration and suffering on social media networks (70), and get sympathy and suggestions from social media friends (71).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Moderating Effects of Social Media Activities on the Relationship Between Effort-Reward Imbalance and Health and Wellbeing: A Case Study of the Oil and Gas Industry in Malaysia

Kanwal

Isha

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundSocial media activities affect every aspect of human life, be it personal, social or professional. Previous studies have confirmed the role of social media in affecting health in terms of releasing stress and providing social support. Increased occupational health disorders and increased time spent on social media activities motivate us to investigate this phenomenon in the context of occupational health. Therefore, the objective of this study is to measure the effects of social media activities related to personal and social life as well as work-life on health and wellbeing of office employees, on their job efforts and job rewards, and in moderating the effect of effort-reward imbalance on health and wellbeing.MethodsInitially, to develop constructs related to social media activities, web-based structured interviews were conducted with five office employees working in the oil and gas industry for the last 5 years. Then, using an online questionnaire survey, data was collected from 424 office employees working in the oil and gas industry in Malaysia. Using statistical software for social science (SPSS) and Smart PLS, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to identify reliability and validity (discriminant validity, convergent validity and composite validity) of the constructs. Following this, path analysis was conducted and the moderating effects were identified.ResultsSocial media activities related to work-life decrease health and wellbeing by 11% and weaken the negative effect of effort-reward-imbalance on health and wellbeing by 17.6% at a 1% level of significance. The results of social media activities related to personal and social life strengthen the negative effect of effort-reward imbalance on health and wellbeing by 12% and negatively affects health and wellbeing and job rewards by 13, 55%, respectively. The direct effect of effort-reward imbalance and job efforts is significantly negative on health and wellbeing by 59 and 10%, respectively.ConclusionIt is concluded that social media activities of the office employees significantly moderate the effect of effort-reward imbalance on health and wellbeing and intervene in job rewards in the organizations. Hence, the effect of social media activities reduces the health and wellbeing of office employees.

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“…In turn, there are also many empirical studies (Appel et al, 2016) reporting a significant connection between upward social comparison and parental tutoring anxiety. USC may lead parents to push their children to study harder than others, but this may also contribute to a sense of loss, negative emotions, and increased anxiety if academic outcomes continue to lag compared to those of other children (Wang et al, 2020). Therefore, this study hypothesized that upward social comparison had a significant positive predictive effect on parents' tutoring anxiety, as follows: H1: USC is positively related to PTA.…”

Section: Research Model and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Parental Social Comparison Related to Tutoring Anxiety, and Guided Approaches to Assisting Their Children's Home Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Yang

Hong

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruption in education systems around the world. Schools have in some cases ended or limited on-site teaching, and have shifted toward home online teaching. This situation is likely to cause increased uncertainty and anxiety for parents who on one hand may question the quality of home online learning yet, on the other, may not feel sufficiently confident or competent to guide their children's home online learning. Resulting anxiety is expected to be most evident in competitive educational contexts, such as those found throughout much of East Asia. Therefore, using China as the setting, and social comparison theory as the framework, this study examined how variation in parent social comparison relates to parent tutoring anxiety and, in turn, to the types of guided strategies parents use to promote their children's home online learning. The results indicated a positive relationship between parental upward social comparison and parental tutoring anxiety, but a negative relationship between parent downward social comparison and parental anxiety. Parental tutoring anxiety is positively related to the confirmation and structure types, but negatively related to the discovery type of guided approaches. The implication of this study is that parents who resist tendencies of competitive upward social comparison are likely to adopt more effective approaches to guiding their children's home online learning.

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Upward social comparison on mobile social media and depression: The mediating role of envy and the moderating role of marital quality

Cited by 67 publications

References 74 publications

Emotional State and Social Media Experience: A Pandemic Case Study

Emotional State and Social Media Experience: A Pandemic Case Study

The Moderating Effects of Social Media Activities on the Relationship Between Effort-Reward Imbalance and Health and Wellbeing: A Case Study of the Oil and Gas Industry in Malaysia

Parental Social Comparison Related to Tutoring Anxiety, and Guided Approaches to Assisting Their Children's Home Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

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