What we do in the shadows: The consumption of mobile messaging by social media mobile apps in the twilight of the social networking era

Hall, Jeffrey A.

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“…The information on motivations was obtained through self-reports which did not ask about social media in particular, but about overall smartphone use; recent research indicates, though, that the boundaries between social media and smartphones are becoming increasingly blurred (Hall, 2023). Moreover, time in social media was strongly correlated with the three motivations for smartphone use, in our data, suggesting that our variables work well as proxies for social media use motivations.…”

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Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults

García-Manglano,

Fernández,

Serrano

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Using a representative longitudinal sample of emerging adults aged 18 to 24 in Spain, we apply a relational lens to the association between social media and mental health. We explore how, beyond time in social media, mental health is influenced by three distinct motivations for social media use: communication ( interacting with others), surveillance ( finding out what others are doing), and escapism ( evading uncomfortable thoughts). Next, we explore the role of relational satisfaction with family and friends in the association between social media use and mental health. We find negative reinforcement patterns (reverse causation) between non-relational motivations in the use of social media (escapism), internalizing psychopathological symptoms, and time in social media; that is, increasing one of them leads to higher levels of the others. We also find that satisfaction with family reduces internalizing psychopathological symptoms, and satisfaction with friends predicts a communicative use of social media. In sum, promoting healthy relationships and relational motivations in the use of social media might help prevent mental health issues among Spanish emerging adults.

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Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults

García-Manglano,

Fernández,

Serrano

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Loneliness and social media

Hall

2024

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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After defining five possible pathways to increase belonging through social media use, this narrative review summarizes the research on social media and loneliness. The association between social media use and loneliness is examined at the trait level and change in loneliness over time. Next, the use of social media during the COVID pandemic and its use to increase belonging at the momentary or daily level are summarized. Following, the use of social media to cope with loneliness or ostracism as well as the social compensation and enhancement hypotheses are examined. The evidence suggests social media use is weakly related to trait loneliness, explains little variance in loneliness relative to other predictors, and fails to explain a change in loneliness over time. There is no evidence it causes loneliness. On any given day, however, social media use may be used to promote belongingness but may not be a good means of coping with loneliness in the long term. This narrative review concludes that future research should firmly situate the study of loneliness and social media in the context of social interactions and relationships by carefully examining when and for whom it is beneficial or harmful.

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What we do in the shadows: The consumption of mobile messaging by social media mobile apps in the twilight of the social networking era

Cited by 2 publications

References 21 publications

Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults

Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults

Loneliness and social media

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