Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence.

By Philippe Verduyn, David S Lee, Jiyoung Park, Holly Shablack, A. Orvell, Joseph B. Bayer, Oscar Ybarra, John Jonides, Ethan Kross. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2015

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The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “Various measures have also been used to capture negative affect, ranging from mood shifts [14,35 ,37] to more drastic consequences like clinical depression [20 ,24,25 ].”
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “Although passive social media use preceeded declines in affective well-being in one seminal study (Verduyn et al., 2015), this causal interpretation could not be corroborated in a more recent longitudinal study.”
No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “Subjects were required to have Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat accounts”
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).”
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).”
Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, methodology): “…of subjective well-being (Ellison et al., 2007; Grieve et al., 2013), and passive use has been linked to negative correlates of subjective well-being (Krasnova et al., 2013; Verduyn et al., 2015), it is important to understand if personality traits play a role in how users engage with Facebook.”
Social networking sites addiction and adolescent depression: A moderated mediation model of rumination and self-esteem (2018, background): “Diary and experience sampling studies have further confirmed that SNS use could predict depression (Steers, Wickham, & Acitelli, 2014; Verduyn et al., 2015).”
Passive and Active Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adults (2018, positive): “Participants completed a questionnaire that asked about depressive symptoms, SMU, and demographic variables.”
Passive social network site use and subjective well-being among Chinese university students: A moderated mediation model of envy and gender (2017, methodology): “Recent research indicates that passive SNS usemight undermine subjective well-being, but active use might not (Chen, Fan, Liu, Zhou, & Xie, 2016; Tandoc et al., 2015; Verduyn et al., 2015).”
Smartphones distract parents from cultivating feelings of connection when spending time with their children (2019, background): “…has documented the psychological consequences of specific digital affordances, such as staying in touch with remote others (Guillory et al., 2015; Verduyn et al., 2015)and finding information (Kushlev & Proulx, 2016; Sparrow, Liu, & Wegner, 2011), but this work has largely neglected the…”
Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: results of a four-week diary study (2019, background): “, posting updates, private messages) shows no effect (Hall, 2018; Verduyn et al., 2015).”
The Welfare Effects of Social Media (2019, background): “…vs. passive Facebook use include Burke, Marlow and Lento (2010), Burke, Kraut and Marlow (2011), Burke and Kraut (2014), and Krasnova et al. (2013), and randomized experiments include Deters and Mehl (2012) and Verduyn et al. (2015). their accounts deactivated nine weeks after the experiment ended.”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, methodology): “For example, studies have reported a positive association between Facebook use and envy (Chou & Edge, 2012) and also shown that envy mediates the relationship between social media use and life satisfaction or depression (Krasnova et al., 2013; Tandoc et al., 2015; Verduyn et al., 2015).”
The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being (2016, positive): “Third, Verduyn et al.(9) found that 10 minutes of passive Facebook use (treatment) in comparison to 10 minutes of active Facebook use (control) led to a decrease in affective well-being over time.”
Upward social comparison on social network sites and depressive symptoms: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and optimism (2017, background): “Moreover, information on SNSs is overly positive because people tend to present themselves in overly flattering ways and communicate positive life developments more frequently than negative ones on SNSs (Kross et al., 2013; Verduyn et al., 2015).”