Evaluation of Quality of Life and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Adolescents with Social Media Addiction

Social Media Use and Depression in Adolescents: A Scoping Review

“…Some papers concluded an association between social media use and depressive symptoms, in addition to other symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, lack of self-esteem, social and appearance anxiety, reassurance seeking, and even internet addiction [ and self-esteem [14,22,25,39,40,47], cyberbullying [34,51], eating disorders [11,12], internet addiction [18,24,33,35,36,38], social media anxiety [2,11,13,39,46,52], and insomnia [25,39,51]. The percentage of the male population in the samples was less than that of the female population in 23 papers [13][14][15][16]20,21,23,27,[30][31][32]35,37,38,41,43,[46][47][48][49]51,52]…”

“…We included 43 articles for this scoping review. These articles were published in 18 different countries; Romania (1, 2.33%) [ 11 ], Australia (3, 6.98%) [ 12 , 13 , 14 ], Belgium (1, 2.33%) [ 15 ], Canada (2, 4.66%) [ 16 , 17 ], China (5, 12.96%) [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ], Finland (1, 2.33%) [ 23 ], India (1, 2.33%) [ 24 ], Iran (1, 2.33%) [ 25 ], Nigeria (2, 4.66%) [ 26 , 27 ], Norway (3, 6.98%) [ 28 , 29 , 30 ], Serbia (1, 2.33%) [ 31 ], Spain (1, 2.33%) [ 32 ], Taiwan (1, 2.33%) [ 33 ], Thailand (1, 2.33%) [ 34 ], Tunisia (1, 2.33%) [ 35 ], Turkey (3, 6.98%) [ 36 , 37 , 38 ], United Kingdom (4, 9.30%) [ 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ], and United States (11, 25.56%) [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ].…”

“…Some papers concluded an association between social media use and depressive symptoms, in addition to other symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, lack of self-esteem, social and appearance anxiety, reassurance seeking, and even internet addiction [ 3 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 32 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 43 , 46 , 47 , 50 , 51 , 52 ]. These papers reported that the number of hours spent on social media is associated with an increase in depressive symptoms and other mental health problems among adolescents.…”

“…Additional factors were taken into consideration such as gender, demographics, cyberbullying, eating disorders, and other addiction problems. However, four of the reviewed articles showed no to minimal or moderate association between social media use and depression in adolescents [ 27 , 30 , 31 , 53 ] Below is Figure 5 which shows the number of reviewed papers associated with depression and self-esteem [ 14 , 22 , 25 , 39 , 40 , 47 ], cyberbullying [ 34 , 51 ], eating disorders [ 11 , 12 ], internet addiction [ 18 , 24 , 33 , 35 , 36 , 38 ], social media anxiety [ 2 , 11 , 13 , 39 , 46 , 52 ], and insomnia [ 25 , 39 , 51 ]. The percentage of the male population in the samples was less than that of the female population in 23 papers [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 20 , 21 , 23 , 27 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 41 , 43 , 46 ,…”

“…Some papers opted for self-reporting of depression symptoms, anxiety, or other mental health problems through surveys and questioners, in addition to reporting the number of hours spent on social media [ 12 , 15 , 29 , 30 , 35 , 38 , 44 , 45 , 47 ].…”