Seeing everyone else's highlight reels: How Facebook usage is linked to depressive symptoms.

By M. Steers, Robert E. Wickham, L. Acitelli. 2014

468 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, unknown): “Initial studies found evidence for this relationship (Chou & Edge, 2012; Jang, Park, & Song, 2016; Lee, 2014; Muise, Christofides, & Desmarais, 2009; Steers & Wickham, 2014).”
• The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “Current Opinion in Psychology 2016, 9:44–49 in opposite directions [25 ,32].”
• Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review (2016, methodology): “Longitudinal research suggests that depression and anxiety remain stable in the context of how frequently a user engages with SNSs [54,56,61,63,77] and the function of use holds clearer associations with depression and anxiety [75].”
• The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being (2016, unknown): “The explanations of these negative effects are often identified as being the by-product of unrealistic social comparison on Facebook (which induces feelings of envy), and to be due to the perception of Facebook as being a meaningless activity.(5,6,8) However, a handful of studies find no links betwe”
• Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis (2017, unknown): “For example, Steers et al. 18 compared the relationship between time spent on Facebook and depression for undergraduate students.”
• The future of social media in marketing (2019, background): “2017; Steers et al.”
• No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “Subjects were required to have Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat accounts”