ReviewNature human behaviour2025
Social media interventions to improve well-being.
Review in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Adolescents' Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Need for Change in Digital Media Use: A Focus Group Study.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Adolescents' Experiences of Social Media Content Types and Wellbeing: A Photo-Elicitation Interview Study.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Algorithmic recommendation and adolescent mental health: a grounded theory study of social and commercial determinants.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Assessing early effects of Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act on adolescents' social media use: observational study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Observational
- Diverse platforms, diverse effects: Evidence from a 100-day study on social media and adolescent mental health.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2026Article
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- Active night-time tweeting is associated with meaningfully lower mental wellbeing in a UK birth cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Concerns about the negative effect of social media on well-being have generated much interest around the development of social media interventions, which aim to change users' interactions with social media to improve well-being. To aid the effective study and design of such interventions, we introduce a new theoretical approach, guided by self-determination theory. We review current interventions and categorize them by the context in which they intervene: social media platforms, devices, users, families and society. Drawing on established behavioural change models, we then evaluate how social media use affects the core psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. We propose theoretically grounded design features that can be applied to maximize the effectiveness of future interventions. In response to the increasing calls for interventions to counteract social media risks, our recommendations will inform future research in academia and industry, with practical applications to enhance well-being in this digital age.
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