ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Negative social media-related experiences and lower general self-efficacy are associated with depressive symptoms in adolescents.
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- Sleep problems were unrelated to social media use in the late COVID-19 pandemic phase: A cross-national study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Momentary Associations Between Emotional Responses to Social Media and Affect: Consistency Across Global Affect and Specific Emotional States.Affective science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Social media are an integral part of adolescents' daily lives, and reviews have suggested an overall small association between more social media use and mental health problems. However, researchers have commonly investigated social media use in a time use perspective, rendering nuances in adolescents' social media experience less well explored. Thus, studies of relationships between social media use and mental health problems need also examine the nature of the events taking place on social media. This study aimed to examine depressive symptoms in adolescents in relationship to time spent on social media, negative social media-related experiences, and general self-efficacy. Data collected in a national survey, Ungdata 2021 (
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