ArticleCurrent psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)2022
Benefits and harms of social media use: A latent profile analysis of emerging adults.
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- The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Problematic Social Media Use Profiles and Adolescent Substance Use Across Countries: A Latent Class Analysis With Multilevel Models.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Exploring Latent Profiles of Problematic Social Media Use and Their Relationship with Distress, FoMO, and Self-Esteem: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Turkish Adult Population.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Prospective bidirectional associations between social media use, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating: predicting exacerbation and maintenance among young adults.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Social comparison and maladaptive emotion regulation are associated with poorer mental health in social media users.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Characterizing Adolescent Social Media Experiences and Links to Momentary Affect.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- Typology of media use and its associations with parent and child factors among elementary school children: a latent profile analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Social Media Activities and Affective Well-being in the Daily Life of Emerging Adults.Affective science · 2024Article
- Facebook Groups for Multiracial People: A Latent Profile Analysis Reveals Unique User Subtypes and Links with Depressive Symptoms.Affective science · 2024Article
- The Association between Alexithymia and Social Media Addiction: Exploring the Role of Dysmorphic Symptoms, Symptoms Interference, and Self-Esteem, Controlling for Age and Gender.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Toddlers and the Telly: A latent profile analysis of children's television time and content and behavioral outcomes one year later in the U.S.Journal of children and media · 2023Article
- Facebook use intensity and depressive symptoms: a moderated mediation model of problematic Facebook use, age, neuroticism, and extraversion.BMC psychology · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The rise in social media use among emerging adults in the United States has been well-documented, but researchers are still working on identifying how the type-not just the frequency-of use impacts psychological well-being. We identified "profiles" of social media use among young adults based on the frequency and purposes of use, and examined their associations with benefits and harms to psychosocial well-being, using data from 2828 incoming undergraduate students (
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