Problematic Social Media Use: Results from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample

By Fanni Bányai, Á. Zsila, Orsolya Király, A. Maráz, Zsuzsanna Elekes, Mark D. Griffiths, Cecilie Schou Andreassen, Zsolt Demetrovics. PLoS ONE, 2017

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Despite social media use being one of the most popular activities among adolescents, prevalence estimates among teenage samples of social media (problematic) use are lacking in the field. The present study surveyed a nationally representative Hungarian sample comprising 5,961 adolescents as part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and based on latent profile analysis, 4.5% of the adolescents belonged to the at-risk group, and reported low self-esteem, high level of depression symptoms, and elevated social media use. Results also demonstrated that BSMAS has appropriate psychometric properties. It is concluded that adolescents at-risk of problematic social media use should be targeted by school-based prevention and intervention programs.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “A survey by Durkee et al. (2012) found that about 4.4 percent of European adolescents were addicted to the internet, while Bányai et al. (2017) found that 4.5 percent of Hungarian adolescents were addicted.”
Analyzing the Links Between Problematic Social Media Use, Dark Triad Traits, and Self-esteem (2018, background): “PSMU has not yet been formally recognized (DSM-5) and it has been diagnosed with different concepts such as addiction (Andreassen 2015; Bányai et al. 2017).”
Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned (2017, neutral): “The study by Bányai and colleagues [93] reported that 4.”
Social media addiction: Its impact, mediation, and intervention (2019, background): “It has been shown that addiction to Facebook is positively associated with depression, anxiety, and insomnia (Bányai et al., 2017; Koc & Gulyagci, 2013; Shensa et al., 2017; van Rooij, Ferguson, van de Mheen, & Schoenmakers, 2017) and negatively associated with subjective well-being, subjective vigo”
Passive and Active Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adults (2018, positive): “24,25 Our ﬁndings suggest that, while it is still soon to determine the extent to which SMU may impact depression outcomes, it is appropriate for encouraging more active use when engaging with SM as opposed to passive lurking.”
Problematic Instagram Use: The Role of Perceived Feeling of Presence and Escapism (2018, background): “While some of these studies have focused on the use of social media more generally (Bányai et al. 2017; Kırcaburun 2016a; Kircaburun, Alhabash, Tosuntaş, & Griffiths, 2018a; Kircaburun, Demetrovics, & Tosuntaş, 2018b; Kircaburun et al., 2018c; Monacis et al. 2017; Wegmann et al. 2015), some studies ”
Problematic Online Behaviors among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Associations between Cyberbullying Perpetration, Problematic Social Media Use, and Psychosocial Factors (2018, background): “Despite the inconsistency on the definition of problematic social media use (PSMU) (Bányai et al. 2017), based on the biopsychosocial theoretical model, PSMU comprises mood changes and total preoccupation of using social media, having negative feelings and psychological symptoms when social media…”
Uses and Gratifications of Problematic Social Media Use Among University Students: a Simultaneous Examination of the Big Five of Personality Traits, Social Media Platforms, and Social Media Use Motives (2018, background): “PSMU is a complex phenomenon and is influenced by many factors and has been conceptualized in various ways (Bányai et al. 2017), including as being sub-type of internet addiction (Griffiths et al.”