Effects of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being: A Mediated Model
Ostic D, Qalati SA, Barbosa B, Shah SMM, Galvan Vela E, Herzallah AM, Liu F
Frontiers in psychology · 70 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2021-06-21 · Front Psychol · vol. 12 · p. 678766
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Cited
- 252 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 52.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 79 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Media Influence and Health
- Keywords
- social media use, psychological well-being, bonding social capital, bridging social capital, social isolation, smartphone addiction, mediation model, social capital
7 authors
From CN, PT, PK, MX, PS
- Dragana OsticJiangsu University
- Sikandar Ali Qalati · correspondingJiangsu University
- Belém BarbosaUniversidade do Porto
- Syed Mir Muhammad ShahSukkur IBA University
- Esthela Galván-Vela · correspondingCETYS Universidad
- Ahmad Mohammad HerzallahAl-Quds University
Abstract
The growth in social media use has given rise to concerns about the impacts it may have on users' psychological well-being. This paper's main objective is to shed light on the effect of social media use on psychological well-being. Building on contributions from various fields in the literature, it provides a more comprehensive study of the phenomenon by considering a set of mediators, including social capital types (i.e., bonding social capital and bridging social capital), social isolation, and smartphone addiction. The paper includes a quantitative study of 940 social media users from Mexico, using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings point to an overall positive indirect impact of social media usage on psychological well-being, mainly due to the positive effect of bonding and bridging social capital. The empirical model's explanatory power is 45.1%. This paper provides empirical evidence and robust statistical analysis that demonstrates both positive and negative effects coexist, helping to reconcile the inconsistencies found so far in the literature.
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