Does time spent using social media impact mental health?: An eight year longitudinal study
By Sarah M. Coyne, Adam A. Rogers, Jessica D. Zurcher, Laura A Stockdale, McCall A. Booth. Computers in Human Behavior, 2020
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Abstract Many studies have found a link between time spent using social media and mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety. However, the existing research is plagued by cross-sectional research and lacks analytic techniques examining individual change over time. The current research involves an 8-year longitudinal study examining the association between time spent using social media and depression and anxiety at the intra-individual level. Participants included 500 adolescents who completed once-yearly questionnaires between the ages of 13 and 20. Results revealed that increased time spent on social media was not associated with increased mental health issues across development when examined at the individual level. Hopefully these results can move the field of research beyond its past focus on screen time.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Accuracy and Validity of Self-Reported Social Media Use Measures Among Adolescents (2021, background): “Between-person associations and within-person associations focus on different types of research questions and each provide unique insights into social media use (Coyne et al., 2020; Orben & Przybylski, 2019; Valkenburg et al., 2021).”
- Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns (2020, unknown): “Over the past decade, dozens of empirical studies have investigated the effect of social media on adolescents’ well-being (e.g., Coyne et al., 2020; Jensen et al., 2019).”