Facebook-based social support and health: A systematic review.

Gilmour, J. S. L.; Machin, Tanya; Brownlow, Charlotte; Jeffries, Carla

doi:10.1037/ppm0000246

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“…Social media provide people with unprecedented opportunities to pursue these goals [75,76] by allowing us to instantly connect with people we are close to (i.e., bonding social capital) and more distantly acquainted (i.e., bridging social capital) [77]. Indeed, a wide range of studies indicate that social media provide feedback that satisfies people's socioemotional (i.e., 'emotional support') and cognitive (i.e., 'informational support') needs and enhances their levels of perceived and received social support (for reviews see [6,78,79]). In some cases, the support benefits that people derive from social media outweigh those they obtain in the offline world.…”

Section: Sharing Emotionsmentioning

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Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

Kross

Verduyn

Sheppes

et al. 2021

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Within a relatively short time span, social media have transformed the way humans interact, leading many to wonder what, if any, implications this interactive revolution has had for people's emotional lives. Over the past 15 years, an explosion of research has examined this issue, generating countless studies and heated debate. Although early research generated inconclusive findings, several experiments have revealed small negative effects of social media use on well-being. These results mask, however, a deeper set of complexities. Accumulating evidence indicates that social media can enhance or diminish well-being depending on how people use them. Future research is needed to model these complexities using stronger methods to advance knowledge in this domain. The Puzzle: Does Social Media Impact Well-Being? Humanity had flirted with the idea of building a machine capable of spreading ideas quickly throughout the world for over 2000 years before all of the pieces necessary to do so finally came together for Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-1400s, while he was working on the shores of the Ill River in Strasburg [1]. It rested largely on Gutenberg's invention of a technique for pressing movable type (think of a scrabble set made of metal) against paper and ink to create a printed page [1] (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Gutenberg). Prior to Gutenberg's invention, it would take up to 2 months to produce a single copy of a book. Now printers could produce 8000 copies during the same time [1]. Highlights Social media has revolutionized how humans interact, providing them with unprecedented opportunities to satisfy their social needs. An explosion of research has examined whether social media impacts wellbeing. First-and second-generation studies examining this issue yielded inconsistent results. An emerging set of third-generation experiments has begun to reveal small but significant negative effects of overall social media use on well-being. The results of these experiments mask the complexities characterizing the relationship between social media and wellbeing. Whether it enhances or diminishes well-being depends on how and why people use it, as well as who uses it. People use social media for different reasons (e.g., to manage impressions, to share emotions), which influence how it impacts their own and other people's well-being.

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Section: Sharing Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

Kross

Verduyn

Sheppes

et al. 2021

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

249

207

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“…If a review mostly included studies that did not empirically distinguish between CMC and a MH variable, it was excluded. For instance, reviews predominantly focusing on identity expression (Wängqvist & Frisén, 2016), self-disclosure (Ruppel et al, 2017), or emotion expression in CMC (Derks et al, 2008) were excluded for this reason (see also Gilmour et al, 2020). While these reviews provide insights into processes crucial to CMC research, they do not explicitly inform research on the empirical association between CMC and MH.…”

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Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Meier

Reinecke

2020

Communication Research

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and specifically social media, may affect the mental health (MH) and well-being of its users, for better or worse. Research on this topic has accumulated rapidly, accompanied by controversial public debate and numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Yet, a higher-level integration of the multiple disparate conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH and individual review findings is desperately needed. To this end, we first develop two organizing frameworks that systematize conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH. Based on these frameworks, we integrate the literature through a meta-review of 34 reviews and a content analysis of 594 publications. Meta-analytic evidence, overall, suggests a small negative association between social media use and MH. However, effects are complex and depend on the CMC and MH indicators investigated. Based on our conceptual review and the evidence synthesis, we devise an agenda for future research in this interdisciplinary field.

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“…However, if this were the case, a huge public health problem would immediately surface as, especially in times of crisis and emergency, people look for support and solace from others, especially those whom they care for: asking people to be deprived of social connections is at odds with the basic human need for socialization, and it has detrimental effects on physical and mental well-being. Moreover, “social distancing” conveys the notion that public health is addressed exclusively by medical measures, while there is long-standing evidence that social support and connectedness (and the lack thereof) greatly influence individual health and well-being (Taylor 2011 ), even when they are provided through online networks and social media (such as Facebook; see Gilmour et al 2019 ). Not by chance, for many people, online interactions have made up for isolation and support has been exchanged in the virtual space.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Social Sciences To Policy Making: Covid-mentioning

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Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble

Rosa

Mannarini

2021

Urban Des Int

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Inspired by the social representation theory, the article embraces many aspects of the way in which the space dimension in social distancing has become a central measure for both one’s own and others’ health protection during the Covid-19 pandemic, evoking symbolic dimensions related to the social representations of “others” that are emotionally driven by fear or mirror the vulnerable self, activating the othering–otherness process. This invisible (sometimes stigmatized) “other”—never previously known—has in a few months infected more than 11 million people on the global scale and caused more than 500 thousands deaths (as of 30 June 2020: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ ). It has dictated where we can go, whether and how we can work, and whom we can meet, induced the virtualization of social relationships (“neighbours from afar” and “together but divided”), and confined working and socio-recreational activities to the home. The socio-spatial prescriptive distancing assumes various meanings in cultural contexts depending on whether lifestyles are more collectivist or individualistic and whether social practices are marked by crowded social proximity or distance. The social representations of cities as complex systems of “places” conceived for social “coexistence” have moved to prescriptive rules of inter-individual spaces (1 m, 2 m, and even more) for “survival”, with significant effects on place identity.

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Facebook-based social support and health: A systematic review.

Abstract: The second author discloses that an immediate family member obtained employment with Facebook after the research was conducted and concluded. No other conflicts of interest to disclose.

Cited by 94 publications

References 49 publications

Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble

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