ArticleThe Journal of general psychology
Daily associations between social media use and memory failures: the mediating role of negative affect.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association Between Short-Form Video Use and Mental Health: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- The relationship between college students' social media use and core self-evaluation: the chain mediating effect of information overload and fear of missing out.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Effects of Adolescent Digital Media Use on Mental Health in Young Adulthood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between TikTok Usage and Executive Function Is Mediated by Problematic Social Media Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Emoji or real emotions? The effect of digitalization on the quality of life through social media addiction - a multigroup SEM analysis, moderated by positive and negative affect.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Smartphone screen time and suicide risk in daily life captured through high-resolution screenshot data.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- The Effect of Digital Era on Human Visual Working Memory.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Role of social media to improve job performance with mediating role of transactive memory capability and employee creativity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Social media use and everyday cognitive failure: investigating the fear of missing out and social networks use disorder relationship.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Light exposure behaviors predict mood, memory and sleep quality.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Association between WeChat Use and Memory Performance among Older Adults in China: The Mediating Role of Depression.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Social Media Usage, Working Memory, and Depression: An Experimental Investigation among University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Role of Envy in Linking Active and Passive Social Media use to Memory Functioning.Psychology of popular media culture · 2022Article
- Social Media Use and Daily Well-Being: The Role of Quantity and Quality of Social Support.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
Daily social media use has been previously linked to worse everyday memory functioning in adulthood; however, the underlying mechanisms that drive these associations are unclear. One pathway in which social media use may negatively influence memory functioning is through a decrease in emotional well-being. Therefore, using a daily diary study from the Midlife in the United States Refresher cohort (MIDUS;
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