A systematic review: the influence of social media on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents
By B. Keles, N. McCrae, Annmarie Grealish. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2019
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ABSTRACT While becoming inextricable to our daily lives, online social media are blamed for increasing mental health problems in younger people. This systematic review synthesized evidence on the influence of social media use on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents. A search of PsycINFO, Medline, Embase, CINAHL and SSCI databases reaped 13 eligible studies, of which 12 were cross-sectional. Findings were classified into four domains of social media: time spent, activity, investment and addiction. All domains correlated with depression, anxiety and psychological distress. However, there are considerable caveats due to methodological limitations of cross-sectional design, sampling and measures. Mechanisms of the putative effects of social media on mental health should be explored further through qualitative enquiry and longitudinal cohort studies.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- The relationship between Instagram use and indicators of mental health: A systematic review (2021, background): “For instance, both time investment on SNS and frequency of SNS use show a weak positive correlation with depressive symptomatology (Huang, 2017; Keles et al., 2020; Yoon et al., 2019).”
- An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks (2023, background): “And more recently, the proliferation of social media has been linked to an increase in depression and anxiety, especially among young people [84].”