ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024
Scrolling for fun or to cope? Associations between social media motives and social media disorder symptoms in adolescents and young adults.
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- Gaming disorder symptoms and psychiatric comorbidity from adolescence to early adulthood - a longitudinal study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Associations of psychological distress, gaming motives and internet gaming disorder in adolescents: a network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- When daily activities become digitally curated: a perspective through the model of human occupation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Parental Perceived Causal Networks of Problematic Screen Time in Adolescents: The Centrality of Passive Scrolling.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2026Article
- Beyond social media users and game players: patterns of digital media use and their association with personality traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Identity Bubble Reinforcement Scale (IBRS) in a Sample of Chilean Adolescent Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- From perceived threat to coping strategies: exploring the role of social media and its impact on loneliness and anxiety during the COVID-19 quarantine.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Although not yet recognized as an official disorder, Social Media Disorder (SMD) has recently received considerable interest in the research. However, relatively little is known about underlying motives for social media use and to what extent motives show differential associations with SMD symptom severity and SMD diagnosis. The overall aim of the present study was therefore to examine motives for social media use in relation to (1) which motives are most common, (2) associations between motives and both SMD symptom severity and SMD diagnosis, and (3) the effects of sex and age. Methods: Data were collected through a digital survey ( Results: The results showed that the most common social media use motives were Entertainment, Social Maintenance, and Information and Skills. However, it was the three least common motives - Social Compensation, Self-status, and Escape - that were most strongly associated with SMD symptom severity and SMD diagnosis. These three motives explained as much as 42% of the variance in negative consequences of social media use. Only a few small effects of sex or age were found. Discussion: Some social media use motives are much more strongly associated with SMD than others are. This could indicate that prevention and intervention programs should target these motives specifically, rather than focusing on social media use in general.
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