ArticleSuicide & life-threatening behavior2021
Social media use and prospective suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents at high risk for suicide.
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- Social Media Use and Internalizing Symptoms in Clinical and Community Adolescent Samples: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
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- The functional heterogeneity of non-suicidal self-injury: insights from latent profile analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Adolescents' Self-Regulation of Social Media Use During the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Idiographic Approach.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2024Article
- Positive and negative social media experiences and proximal risk for suicidal ideation in adolescents.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- The Role of Neural Sensitivity to Social Evaluation in Understanding "for Whom" Social Media Use May Impact Emotional Health During Adolescence.Affective science · 2024Article
- Adolescents' daily social media use and mood during the COVID-19 lockdown period.Current research in ecological and social psychology · 2024Article
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- A Pilot Case-Control Study of the Social Media Activity Following Cluster and Non-Cluster Suicides in Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Social Media as a Behavioral Activation Tool, Conferring Possible Protection Against Suicidal Thoughts Among Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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objectiveTo examine the relationship between social media use and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents in the first 30 days of an intensive outpatient program (IOP) for depression and suicidality.
methodParticipants included 100 adolescents who enrolled in an IOP for depression and suicidality and completed baseline measures of social media and weekly measures of depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors at clinical visits over the next month.
resultsLower levels of social media use (overall and messaging) were associated with a greater likelihood of having suicidal ideation with plan over the next 30 days. There was no effect on suicidal behavior. Multilevel modeling indicated no main effects of social media use on depression or average days of suicidal thoughts. However, individuals with lower levels of social media use maintained more depression symptoms and days with passive death wish across the first month of treatment.
conclusionsAmong adolescents at high risk for suicide, less engagement in social media may reflect social anhedonia or withdrawal, which may heighten risk for more severe suicidal ideation or impede initial treatment. Findings highlight the importance of considering social media as an additional context when assessing social dysfunction in treatment for depression and suicidality.
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