ArticleJournal of adolescence2025
Characterizing Adolescent Social Media Experiences and Links to Momentary Affect.
Article in Journal of adolescence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of internet addiction in hospitalized adolescents: proposing a hospital-adapted moderated dual mediation model of emotional dysregulation and social compensation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Adolescents' Experiences of Social Media Content Types and Wellbeing: A Photo-Elicitation Interview Study.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Within-Individual Variability in Well-Being Among Emerging Adults.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- Real-World Social Reward Processes are Linked to Momentary Positive Affect in Adolescent Girls.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- The Role of Neural Sensitivity to Social Evaluation in Understanding "for Whom" Social Media Use May Impact Emotional Health During Adolescence.Affective science · 2024Article
- Health Benefits of Social Media Use in Adolescents and Young Adults.Current pediatrics reports · 2024Review
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
introductionSocial media (SM) use is ubiquitous among adolescents, and questions remain regarding the impact of SM on youths' emotional health. Understanding what adolescents are experiencing on SM is critical for answering these questions.
methodsThe present study uses ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to characterize SM experiences (SMEs) over 15 days in 94 U.S. adolescents ages 12-15 years (53% female, 64% White). At each EMA observation, participants used a pre-specified list to indicate which (if any) socially threatening and rewarding SMEs they had since the last observation. Online communication behaviors and valence-ambiguous SMEs were also explored. In addition to characterizing the frequency of these SMEs, associations between SMEs and momentary positive and negative affect (PA/NA) were tested using multilevel modeling.
resultsAdolescents more frequently reported rewarding (e.g., receiving supportive or encouraging comments) than threatening (e.g., getting bullied, blocked, or told mean comments) SMEs. Moreover, 41% of participants failed to endorse any threatening SMEs that were assessed over the 15-day EMA period. While rewarding and threatening SMEs were associated with higher concurrent PA and NA, respectively, SMEs were not prospectively related to changes in within-person affect from one survey to the next.
conclusionsIdentifying what adolescents are experiencing when using SM is crucial for better understanding how SM might be impacting youths' well-being. Findings help characterize common SMEs among adolescents and suggest that even threatening SMEs may not drive short-term changes in youths' affective health.
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