A meta-analysis of the problematic social media use and mental health
Huang C
The International journal of social psychiatry · 148 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- Grants
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST108-2511-H018-026)
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-12-09 · Int J Soc Psychiatry · vol. 68 · issue 1 · pp. 12–33
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Cited
- 396 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 10.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 166 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior · Mental Health via Writing
- Keywords
- social media addiction, mental health, well-being, life satisfaction, self-esteem, depression, loneliness, Facebook addiction, social networking sites
- MeSH
- humans, behavior, addictive, loneliness, self concept, mental health, social media
1 author
From TW
- Chiungjung Huang · correspondingNational Changhua University of Education
Abstract
Background
Although previous meta-analyses were conducted to quantitatively synthesize the relation between problematic social media (SM) use and mental health, they focused on Facebook addiction.
Aims
The purpose of this meta-analysis is to examine this relation by extending the research scope via the inclusion of studies examining problematic use of all platforms.
Method
One hundred and thirty-three independent samples (N =244,676) were identified.
Results
As expected, the mean correlations between problematic SM use and well-being are negative, while those between problematic SM use and distress are positive. Life satisfaction and self-esteem are commonly used to represent well-being, while depression and loneliness are usually used to indicate distress. The mean correlations of problematic SM use with life satisfaction and self-esteem are small, whereas those of problematic SM use with depression and loneliness are moderate. The moderating effects of publication status, instruments, platforms and mean age are not significant.
Conclusions
The magnitude of the correlations between problematic SM use and mental health indicators can generalize across most moderator conditions.
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