Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review

By Philippe Verduyn, Oscar Ybarra, Maxime Résibois, John Jonides, Ethan Kross. 2017

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Passive social networking site use and well-being: The mediating roles of social comparison and the fear of missing out (2019, background): “Although this pathway has been suggested by other researchers (Verduyn et al., 2017), few studies have explicitly tested it (see Tandoc et al., 2015, Verduyn et al., 2015, for exceptions).”
The relationship between Instagram use and indicators of mental health: A systematic review (2021, background): “Nevertheless, it may also be important to further explore the association between type of Instagram use and well-being, since initial studies and previous SNS reviews (e.g., Verduyn et al., 2017) suggested that differential types of use may have differential effects on well-being.”
Association Between Social Networks and Subjective Well-Being in Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “They concluded that social networking sites can improve our subjective well-being if they are used actively to connect with others but at the same time can be a “significant stress” to our well-being if used passively because of the effects on life comparison and envy (Verduyn et al., 2017).”
Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “For example, passive users, who largely scroll and read, report relatively lower subjective well-being compared with more active users who engage with others (Verduyn et al., 2015, 2017).”
The effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health (2020, neutral): “There is initial experimental evidence that such ‘pas-sive’ uses could even negatively influence well-being, possibly by increasing social comparison and envy( 78 ).”
Aligning AI Optimization to Community Well-Being (2020, background): “( Verduyn et al. 2017, p. 274) A close reading of posts around this time shows that Facebook developed a well-being proxy metric.”
Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age (2020, background): “For example, a review by Verduyn, Ybarra, R esibois, Jonides, and Kross (2017) showed that passively using social media provokes social comparisons and envy, whereas active usage of social media is related to creating social capital and stimulating feelings of social connectedness.”
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review (2020, background): “While active usage, in its broadest sense, refers to “activities that facilitate direct exchanges with other(s)” (Verduyn et al., 2017, p. 281), passive usage refers to the mere consumption of messages from status updates, comments, profiles, or stories without any direct response to the sender,…”
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns (2020, neutral): “Most earlier studies have reported across-the-board effects of social media use on well-being among groups or subgroups of adolescents (for a review, see Verduyn et al., 2017).”
The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition (2019, background): “…supernormal capacities for cognitive 34 and that higher frequency of Internet use over 3 years in chil dren is linked with decreased verbal intelligence at follow up, along with impeded maturation of both grey and white matter regions 135 On the other hand, the opposite may be true in older…”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, methodology): “Articles were mapped to the (1) social comparison process if they measured being exposed to content provided by others, either by passive use in general (Verduyn et al., 2017) or by browsing others’ profiles (de Vries & Kühne, 2015).”
How and Why Social Media Affect Subjective Well-Being: Multi-Site Use and Social Comparison as Predictors of Change Across Time (2020, background): “Thus, a recent review concluded that the evidence for the negative effects of social media use on well-being is generally stronger than that for the positive effects (Verduyn et al. 2017).”