Instagram #Instasad?: Exploring Associations Among Instagram Use, Depressive Symptoms, Negative Social Comparison, and Strangers Followed

By Katerina Lup, Leora R. Trub, Lisa Rosenthal. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2015

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being (2018, background): “In the literature, passive SNS usage has also been found to be positively related to users’ depressive symptoms (Lup et al., 2015), social anxiety (Orchard et al.”
The relationship between Instagram use and indicators of mental health: A systematic review (2021, background): “Of the remaining ten studies including cross-sectional analyses, 60% (6 studies) provided evidence for a small to moderate positive association between both constructs (Donnelly & Kuss, 2016; Li et al., 2018; Lup et al., 2015; Sherlock & Wagstaff, 2019; Yurdagül et al., 2019; Vannucci et al., 2018).”
Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp (2017, unknown): “In contrast, Twitter and Instagram rely on nonreciprocal following, which is often associated with a larger proportion of weak ties and the inclusion of strangers in one’s network (Lin et al., 2014; Lup et al., 2015).”
The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “However, a longer friend list usually entails a high proportion of strangers or distant acquaintances [46], which predicts negative social comparison outcomes [34,47], maybe because overly positive self-presentations are less easily disproved by real-life information [12 ].”
Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “Previous research suggests that exposure to strangers’ posts has different effects than exposure to posts from people closer to the viewer, such as their friends (Chou & Edge, 2012; Lup et al., 2015).”
Children and Adolescents and Digital Media (2016, background): “122 These studies illustrate that, beyond the number of hours spent on social media, a key factor is how an individual uses social media.”
No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “Subjects were required to have Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat accounts”
Association Between Social Networks and Subjective Well-Being in Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “There is a large and growing number of studies based on specific sites such as Facebook (Frost & Rickwood, 2017; Glassman, 2012; Hormes et al., 2014; Košir et al., 2016; Sarabia & Estévez, 2016), Instagram (de Vries et al., 2018; Lup et al., 2015), YouTube (Thelwall, 2018), and Snapchat (Utz et al.,”