Adjustment Correlates of Social Media Engagement Among Early Adolescents

Swirsky, Jill M.; Rosie, Michelle; Xie, Hongling

doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01421-3

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“…Among the reasons for using social media and its benefits, adolescents usually report the need to communicate with friends and other people in their social circle, share images and obtain information related to the activities of people they know ( 49 ). Swirsky et al ( 50 ) also reported positive and significant associations between the frequency of social media use and prosocial support. However, more recent studies highlighted that social media presence is not critical for the self's construction, but for the feedback received for the content adolescents post ( 51 ).…”

Section: Adolescents and Social Media Use Effectsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Social media use as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multidimensional perspective on adolescents' well-being

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2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionSocial media use was previously characterized as both a maladaptive coping mechanism, and a source of engagement with peers, suggesting an ambivalent effect. The present study explored how adolescents might use social media as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a multidimensional perspective on well-being.MethodsOur sample consisted of 259 Romanian teenagers aged 11–16 (M = 13.38, SD = 0.93, 57% males). We investigated the potential indirect effect of social media use, i.e., its cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions on the relationship between depressive symptoms and adolescents' well-being.ResultsAcross all mediation analyses, our results suggested that social media use positively predicted adolescents' well-being. Given the multidimensional approach to both social media use and well-being, our findings suggested that adolescents' well-being was predicted not only by actual social media use behaviors but also by cognitions related to the expectation of receiving gratification on social media and the intense affective states related to the desire to use social media. Also, our data suggested that adolescents with high levels of depressive symptoms might be more likely to capitalize on social media use and have expectations related to receiving approval from others in the context of social media use.DiscussionDepressive symptoms might be more relevant when explaining the cognitive and affective involvement during social media use. However, their ability to predict the actual social media use behaviors may be limited. Furthermore, adolescents that present depressive symptoms might be more prone to use social media, in order to improve their well-being.

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Section: Adolescents and Social Media Use Effectsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Social media use as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multidimensional perspective on adolescents' well-being

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2023

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“…They labeled the five main types as online skill, online activity, online time, diversity of online place, and diversity of online method. Notably, time spent online is one of the five types of skill measures, as are the actual tasks performed or platforms accessed, comparable to the way Ellison et al's Facebook intensity scale has been adapted to other social media platforms such as Twitter (e.g., McNallie et al, 2020), or social networks (Koç & Turan, 2020), and has been used with nonspecific reference to social media (Swirsky et al, 2021). Some researchers (e.g., Correa et al, 2010) even use additive measures to combine the use of different types of social media, such as social network use and instant message use, because the components are correlated strongly.…”

Section: Social Media Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Relationship between Social Media Use, Big Five Personality, and Well-being

Bunz

2021

JoCTEC

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This study investigates the relationship between social media use, Big Five personality traits, and subjective well-being to determine how different personality traits relate to different measures of social media use and well- being, and which variable influences well-being the most. Participants completed established measures for the Big Five personality traits, social media engagement, social media intensity, satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, and depression. Results showed that extraversion predicted social media engagement and intensity, and social media time. Conscientiousness predicted spending less time on social media. In addition, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism predicted positive well-being stronger than did social media use. When conducting five separate regression analyses with a social media use variable and a different personality variable each time, four times (conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) the personality variable predicted negative well-being more strongly than did the social media use variable. However, negative well-being was predicted more strongly by social media use than by the fifth personality variable, openness to change. Results are discussed and possible future investigations are suggested.

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“…They support each other in learning, share with each other in life, and actively communicate with each other emotionally. Additionally, good peer relationships may even compensate for children’s unmet attachment needs in parent–child relationships [ 35 ]. Children left behind in transnational adoptions feel a sense of belonging to the group, which, in turn, affects their academic, behavioral, and emotional adaptation status.…”

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The Impact of Parent–Child Attachment on School Adjustment in Left-behind Children Due to Transnational Parenting: The Mediating Role of Peer Relationships

Zhang

Deng

2022

IJERPH

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In China’s eastern coastal areas, the transnational parenting of left-behind children creates a distinct form of left-behind child. Previous research has indicated that children who have been left behind have a low degree of school adjustment. The major purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of parent–child attachment on school adjustment in children left behind by migrant parents, as well as the mediating role of peer relationships in this process. The parent–child attachment section of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), the Adaptation subscale of the Adolescent Mental Health Quality Questionnaire—Chinese Version (AMHQQ-C), and the Student Peer Relationship Scale (SPRC) were used to survey 405 left-behind children in grades 3–6 of seven elementary schools in the hometowns of overseas Chinese parents from Zhejiang Province. It was discovered that, compared to non-left-behind children, left-behind children showed lower levels of parent–child attachment and school adjustment, while peer relationships appeared polarized. In addition, parent–child attachment and peer relationships considerably predicted the level of school adjustment in children left behind due to transnational parenting. More importantly, the mediation analysis revealed a partial mediating effect of peer relationships on the linkages between parent–child attachment and school adjustment among children who were left behind in transnational foster care.

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Adjustment Correlates of Social Media Engagement Among Early Adolescents

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Social media use as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multidimensional perspective on adolescents' well-being

Social media use as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multidimensional perspective on adolescents' well-being

Investigating the Relationship between Social Media Use, Big Five Personality, and Well-being

The Impact of Parent–Child Attachment on School Adjustment in Left-behind Children Due to Transnational Parenting: The Mediating Role of Peer Relationships

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