Facebook's emotional consequences: Why Facebook causes a decrease in mood and why people still use it

By Christina Sagioglou, Tobias Greitemeyer. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being (2016, neutral): “If experiment effects did affect the findings of the present study, they might even turn in the opposite direction because people, in general, perceive Facebook as a source to positive feelings.(8) In addition, one may ask why so many people are using Facebook in the first place if the social networ”
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “This effect could be amplified by users’ negative thoughts and feelings about having wasted time online (Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014).”
The Longitudinal Association Between Social-Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Empirical Reply to Twenge et al. (2018) (2019, background): “They also reported results from a short-term experimental study that found that giving up Facebook for a week increased positive emotions (Tromholt, 2016; see also Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014).”
Fear of missing out: Relationships with depression, mindfulness, and physical symptoms. (2016, background): “…as a budding resource of positive effects on the psyche (e.g., boosting self-worth, selfintegrity, & self-esteem; Gentile et al., 2012; Toma & Hancock, 2013); the other offers a darker, more negative outlook (e.g., social media negatively affecting emotional states; Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014).”
Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “Studies have tested the emotional consequences of viewing others ’ posts in general (e.g., Fardouly, Diedrichs, Vartanian, & Halliwell, 2015; Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014; Vogel, Rose, Okdie, Eckles, & Franz, 2015) or manipulated other factors such as (un)attractiveness or (un)successfulness of…”
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND DEPRESSION AMONG U.S. YOUNG ADULTS (2016, background): “Multiple studies have linked social media use with declines in subjective mood, sense of well-being, and life satisfaction.[17, 21, 34] For example, passive consumption of social media content—as opposed to active communication—has been associated with decrease in bonding and bridging social capital”
Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, methodology): “In previous studies, passive use has been measured in various ways: (a) through experimental manipulation of Facebook activity (Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014; Verduyn et al., 2015), (b) through access to server logs from Facebook (Burke et al., 2010), or (c) by using subscales which measure feature…”
Facebook Addiction and Subjective Well-Being: a Study of the Mediating Role of Shyness and Loneliness (2019, background): “Sagioglou and Greitemeyer (2014) investigated the relationships FA and affective components of subjective well-being.”
The emotional responses of browsing Facebook: Happiness, envy, and the role of tie strength (2015, background): “Previous research has revealed that the more time individuals spent browsing Facebook, the more negative their mood was immediately afterwards, and this was mediated by a feeling of not having done anything meaningful (Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014).”
Instagram #Instasad?: Exploring Associations Among Instagram Use, Depressive Symptoms, Negative Social Comparison, and Strangers Followed (2015, positive): “First, partially consistent with the hypotheses and past research, 7,14,35 more frequent Instagram use had a marginally signiﬁcant direct association with greater depressive symptoms.”
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “Other mechanisms that have been proposed include the perception of having wasted time (Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014), brooding or worrying (Shaw et al., 2015), and information overload (Koroleva, Krasnova, & Günther, 2010).”