Problematic Social Media Use: Results from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample
Bányai F, Zsila Á, Király O, Maraz A, Elekes Z, Griffiths MD, Andreassen CS, Demetrovics Z
PloS one · 397 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office
- Government
- Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office
- Government
- New National Excellence Program
- Grants
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office (K111938)
Based on 3 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2017-01-09 · PLoS One · vol. 12 · issue 1 · p. e0169839
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Cited
- 984 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 144.5× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 70 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Child Development and Digital Technology · Social Media and Politics
- Keywords
- social media addiction, adolescents, Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, low self-esteem, depressive symptoms, scale psychometric properties, school-based prevention, Hungarian adolescents
- MeSH
- humans, prevalence, factor analysis, statistical, adolescent behavior, depression, behavior, addictive, adolescent, hungary, female, male, social media
8 authors
From HU, GB, NO
- Fanni BányaiEötvös Loránd University
- Ágnes ZsilaEötvös Loránd University
- Orsolya KirályEötvös Loránd University
- Anikó MarázEötvös Loránd University
- Zsuzsanna ElekesCorvinus University of Budapest
- Mark Damian GriffithsNottingham Trent University
Abstract
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.
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