Observational studyJournal of behavioral addictions2019
Strategies for self-controlling social media use: Classification and role in preventing social media addiction symptoms.
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- The relationships among self-control, psychological resilience, and digital addiction in college students: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Social Media Use Interventions on Mental Well-Being: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Promoting Self-Regulated Social Media Use on Smartphones With a Mobile Intervention App (Wellspent): Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Effects of an intervention targeting social media app use on well-being outcomes: A randomized controlled trial.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Trial
- How Psychological Capital and Academic Burnout Shape Short-Video Addiction: A Latent Profile Analysis of Heterogeneity.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- When Digital Connectivity Drivers Meet Digital Disconnection: A Cross-Country Study on Smartphone Checking, Digital Disconnection Strategies, and Digital Stress.Mobile media & communication · 2026Article
- Personalized recommendation and short-form video addiction tendency: the mediating effect of flow and the moderating effect of self-control.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Self-control and social support in the link between academic pressure anxiety depression and social media addiction in college students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The relationship among short-form video addiction, self-control, and emotional symptoms in college students: a network analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Developing Digital Self-Regulation in Adolescence: A Developmental Self-Determination Model of Digital Self-Regulation.Educational psychology review · 2026Review
- Interpersonal conflicts, social media use and depression associated with protests.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Effect of attentional bias modification on social media addiction: a visual dot-probe task.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Beyond problematic social media use and the brain: A public health and policy perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Toward the classification of social media use disorder: Clinical characterization and proposed diagnostic criteria.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- The Association Between Neuroticism and Problematic Social Networking Sites Use: The Role of Fear of Missing out and Self-Control.Psychological reports · 2024Article
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- Enjoyment or Indulgence? Social Media Service Usage, Social Gratification, Self-Control Failure and Emotional Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Problematic Smartphone Use and Social Media Fatigue: The Mediating Role of Self-Control.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Explaining variation in adolescents' social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsMany people present excessive patterns of social networking site (SNS) use and try to self-regulate it. However, little is known regarding the strategies employed by young adult SNS users and their role in preventing the emergence of addiction-like symptoms in relation to SNS use.
methodsIn Study 1, we employed a naturalistic-qualitative approach for finding commonly employed self-control strategies in relation to SNS use. In Study 2, we examined differences between the frequency and difficulty of the strategies identified in Study 1 and tested the process through which trait self-control exerts influence on reducing SNS addiction symptomology.
resultsStudy 1 revealed six families of self-control strategies, some reactive and some proactive. Study 2 pinpointed the most commonly used and most difficult to enact ones. It also showed that the difficulty to enact self-control strategies in relation to SNS use partially mediates the effect of trait self-control via SNS use habit on SNS addiction symptom severity.
conclusionsTaken together, the present findings revealed that strategies for self-controlling SNS use are common and complex. Their theoretical and clinical significance stems from their ability to prevent the translation of poor trait self-control and strong SNS use habit to the emergence of excessive use as manifested in SNS addiction-like symptoms.
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