SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Research trends in social media addiction and problematic social media use: A bibliometric analysis.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Impact of Social Media Videos on Quantitative Health Outcomes: Systematic Review.JMIR infodemiology · 2026Pooled it
- Problematic Online Dating: Systematic Review of Definitions, Correlates, and Study Designs.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- "Mirror, Mirror, Am I Beautiful?" Mechanisms of Self-Image Cognition and Behavioral Responses Among Chinese Youth in the Context of Digital Beauty Filter Use: A Mixed-Methods Study Using Grounded Theory and fsQCA.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The translation and validation of the YouTube addiction scale in modern standard Arabic among emerging and young adults.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis of mindfulness and experiential avoidance associated with social media use disorder.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Perception of having an aesthetic procedure on social media and psychological symptoms: serial mediation by social media addiction and social appearance anxiety.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- A Stress-Induced Digital Escapism Framework for Understanding the Link Between Stress and Problematic Social Media Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Causal modeling of school aversion in psychiatrically referred adolescents: a DoWhy-based analysis.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Emotional and Psychosocial Correlates of Problematic Social Media Use Among Adults: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Prolonged social media use is not fundamentally problematic in a Hungarian representative study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Effect of attentional bias modification on social media addiction: a visual dot-probe task.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A social cognitive theory and theory of planned behavior-based serial multiple mediation model of social media-related factors and eating behaviors among sports science students.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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- When daily activities become digitally curated: a perspective through the model of human occupation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Is Addiction Research Addicted to Artificial Intelligence? Mapping the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Substance Use and Mental Health Through a Bibliometric Analysis.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Review
- Academic Self-Efficacy as a Mediator Between Risk for Social Media Addiction, Nomophobia, and Clinical Performance Among Nursing Internship Students: A Structural Equation Model.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Problematic use of generative artificial intelligence chatbots: current stage of conceptual and clinical understanding.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
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- Social isolation and social media addiction: the serial mediation roles of social anxiety and FoMO among Chinese university students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hooked and Distracted? A Network Analysis on the Interplay of Social Media Addiction, Fear of Missing Out, Cyberloafing, Work Engagement and Organizational Commitment.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Despite their increasing ubiquity in people's lives and incredible advantages in instantly interacting with others, social media's impact on subjective well-being is a source of concern worldwide and calls for up-to-date investigations of the role social media plays in mental health. Much research has discovered how habitual social media use may lead to addiction and negatively affect adolescents' school performance, social behavior, and interpersonal relationships. The present study was conducted to review the extant literature in the domain of social media and analyze global research productivity during 2013-2022. Bibliometric analysis was conducted on 501 articles that were extracted from the Scopus database using the keywords social media addiction and problematic social media use. The data were then uploaded to VOSviewer software to analyze citations, co-citations, and keyword co-occurrences. Volume, growth trajectory, geographic distribution of the literature, influential authors, intellectual structure of the literature, and the most prolific publishing sources were analyzed. The bibliometric analysis presented in this paper shows that the US, the UK, and Turkey accounted for 47% of the publications in this field. Most of the studies used quantitative methods in analyzing data and therefore aimed at testing relationships between variables. In addition, the findings in this study show that most analysis were cross-sectional. Studies were performed on undergraduate students between the ages of 19-25 on the use of two social media platforms: Facebook and Instagram. Limitations as well as research directions for future studies are also discussed.
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