ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2024
Social Media Use as a Predictor of Positive and Negative Affect: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Adolescents with and without Clinical Depression.
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- Real-time experience: A systematic review of ecological momentary assessments of everyday functioning in major depressive disorder.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2026Pooled it
- Adolescents' daily affect predicts their mobile phone use (not the other way around).Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- The Role of Neurobehavioral Attention Bias on Relations between Preference for Digital Media Use and Social Anxiety Symptoms Across Adolescence.Brain and environment · 2026Article
- Online Social Support - an Adjunct or Substitute for Traditional Social Support: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Development and Initial Validation of a Brief, Online Version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D): Psychometric Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- 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
- Appnome analysis reveals small or no associations between social media app-specific usage and adolescent well-being.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural Reactivity to Social Reward Moderates the Association Between Social Media Use and Momentary Positive Affect in Adolescents.Affective science · 2024Article
- Temporal Dynamics of Positive and Negative Affect in Adolescents: Associations with Depressive Disorders and Risk.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
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Abstract
Social media use is common in adolescents, with implications for psychosocial development and the emergence of depression. Yet, little is known about the time-linked connections between social media use and adolescents' affective experiences and how they may differ between depressed and non-depressed youth. We leveraged ecological momentary assessment in adolescents oversampled for current depression to examine (1) associations between social media use and concurrent and later positive and negative affect and (2) sex and presence of a depressive disorder as moderators of these associations. Adolescents aged 14-17 with (n = 48) and without (n = 97) clinical depression, as indicated via clinical interview, reported momentary social media use and positive and negative affect seven times per day for one week. Multilevel modeling indicated that social media use was associated with reduced positive affect both concurrently and at the next assessment. Further, among clinically depressed youth only, social media use was associated with reduced negative affect at the next assessment. Results suggest that social media use may reduce both positive and negative affect, highlighting the nuanced relation between adolescent social media use and emotional health and laying the groundwork for future research to address several open questions.
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