Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know
Valkenburg PM
Current opinion in psychology · 99 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Unclassified
- Strong
- Government
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Government
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Based on 3 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2021-12-20 · Curr Opin Psychol · vol. 45 · p. 101294
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Cited
- 374 citations · more than 99% of similar papers · 11.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 75 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Social Media and Politics · Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- social media use, well-being, ill-being, happiness, depression, time spent on social media, active social media use, passive social media use, meta-analysis, research gaps
- MeSH
- humans, happiness, social media
1 author
From NL
- Patti M. Valkenburg · correspondingUniversity of Amsterdam
Abstract
Research into the impact of social media use (SMU) on well-being (e.g., happiness) and ill-being (e.g., depression) has exploded over the past few years. From 2019 to August 2021, 27 reviews have been published: nine meta-analyses, nine systematic reviews, and nine narrative reviews, which together included hundreds of empirical studies. The aim of this umbrella review is to synthesize the results of these meta-analyses and reviews. Even though the meta-analyses are supposed to rely on the same evidence base, they yielded disagreeing associations with well- and ill-being, especially for time spent on SM, active SMU, and passive SMU. This umbrella review explains why their results disagree, summarizes the gaps in the literature, and ends with recommendations for future research.
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