We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US colleges. Our analysis couples data on student mental health around the years of Facebook's expansion with ageneralized d...
(2021). Computer-mediated communication, social media, and mental health: A conceptual and empirical meta-review. Communication Research, 48(8), 1182–1209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220958224 Article Google Scholar Mills, J. S., Shannon, A., & Hogue, J. (2017). Beauty, body image...
As of June 2023, the number of Chinese search engine users has reached 841 million, accounting for 78.0% of the total number of Internet users (CNNIC,2023). Compared with social media, which typically requires account registration and does not automatically record geolocations, the use of Intern...
reported no significant association with suicide. Three studies reported that child protection referrals were lower than expected number of referrals originating in schools. Three studies suggested higher screen time usage, 2 studies reported greater social media use, and 6 studies reported lower physical...
Our findings complement those using cross-sectional designs2 or small longitudinal cohorts4,5 and extend them to older adults, indicating the need for further investigation of the relationship between social media use and mental health. Back to top Article Information Accepted for Publication: ...
Social media has a limited effect on teenage mental health Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US Why is Meta getting rid of fact-checking and will it affect my social media feed? The Irish Times view on Zuckerbe...
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self-enhancement motives and attitudes towards electronic word-of-mouth behaviour on social media. Further, we investigated the moderating effect of self-construal on hypothesized relationships in the proposed model. Data for the study was drawn using the convenience sample survey method, and covariance...
To provide data for the validity analyses, the participants completed four additional well-being measures: the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF), the Positive and Negative Affect Scale for Children (PANAS-C), Cantril’s ladder and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-25 (RC...