Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis

By Chiungjung Huang. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2017

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The Longitudinal Association Between Social-Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Empirical Reply to Twenge et al. (2018) (2019, background): “For instance, in a meta-analysis of 61 primarily nonlongitudinal studies (Huang, 2017), the mean correlation between frequency of socialmedia use and psychological well-being was r = –.07, a trivial effect (see also Booker et al., 2018).”
Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “4) Emotions: Those who are addicted to social media, and to the internet in general, suffer a number of emotional deficits, including depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety, alienation from family and peers, hostility toward others, and poor interpersonal relationships (see the reviews of Andre”
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “Our review shows that most average relationships between general SNS activity measures and well-being, loneliness, self-esteem, or depression are significantly negative, but they are small in size (Huang, 2017; Liu & Baumeister, 2016; see also Orben & Przybylski, 2019a).”
The relationship between Instagram use and indicators of mental health: A systematic review (2021, background): “Several studies have linked excessive SNS use to lower psychological well-being (see Huang, 2017, for a meta-analysis).”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, background): “Motivated by the popularity of these platforms worldwide, the effects of SNS use on users’well-being have been researched (e.g., Burke&Kraut, 2016; Kross et al., 2013; Valkenburg, Peter, & Schouten, 2006) and reviewed (e.g., Huang, 2017) extensively.”
The Accuracy and Validity of Self-Reported Social Media Use Measures Among Adolescents (2021, background): “Since the introduction of social media, numerous studies have tried to assess how adolescents are affected by these media (for meta-analyses, see e.g., Huang, 2017; Liu & Baumeister, 2016; Liu et al., 2018), most with retrospective surveys.”
Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: results of a four-week diary study (2019, background): “One other possibility is the positive influence of social media and the negative influence of social media canceled one another out during periods of abstinence (e.g., Burke & Kraut, 2016; Domahidi, 2018; Huang, 2017; Vanman et al., 2018).”
Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age: Facts, Fears and Future Directions (2020, positive): “More recently, Huang (2017) performed a meta-analysis across 67 independent samples (61 studies), which included a mix of adolescents and young adults (N = 19,652).”
Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018, background): “Some studies link frequency of social media use to poor psychological wellbeing (Augner & Hacker, 2012; Kross et al., 2013; Huang, 2017; Shakya & Christakis, 2017; Tromholt, 2016), although other studies instead find links with positive wellbeing (e.”
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review (2020, methodology): “…to CMC and MH, investigating widely different technology indicators (e.g., “screen time,” self-presentation on SNS, intensity of Facebook use) and a disconnected smorgasbord of MH indicators (e.g., self-esteem, loneliness, depression, life satisfaction) (e.g., Huang, 2017; Twomey & O’Reilly, 2017).”