Social Media and Depression Symptoms: a Meta-Analysis

Cunningham, Simone; Hudson, Chloe C.; Harkness, Kate L.

doi:10.1007/s10802-020-00715-7

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“…Our search yielded 25 reviews: seven meta-analyses, which either included only adolescents [14] or used age as a moderator [15][16][17][18][19][20]; nine systematic reviews (which reported a systematic search and a synthesis of included studies in tables) [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]; and nine narrative reviews [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Fourteen of these reviews were published in medical/psychiatric journals, eight in psychology journals, and three in social science journals.…”

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Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

Valkenburg¹,

Meier²,

Beyens³

2021

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Literature reviews on how social media use affects adolescent mental health have accumulated at an unprecedented rate of late. Yet, a higher-level integration of the evidence is still lacking. We fill this gap with an up-to-date umbrella review, a review of reviews published between 2019 and mid 2021. Our search yielded 25 reviews: seven meta-analyses, nine systematic, and nine narrative reviews. Results showed that most reviews interpreted the associations between social media use and mental health as “weak” or “inconsistent,” whereas a few qualified the same associations as “substantial” and “deleterious.” We summarize the gaps identified in the reviews, provide an explanation for their diverging interpretations, and suggest several avenues for future research.

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Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

Valkenburg¹,

Meier²,

Beyens³

2021

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“…For example, when social media use involves primarily positive interactions (e.g., social support and social connectedness), this is associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression symptoms; however, negative interactions such as social comparisons relate to higher levels of anxiety and depression (Seabrook et al, 2016). Therefore, the links to anxiety and depression seem to be related to problematic social media use, not necessarily frequency of use (Cunningham et al, 2021).…”

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The Influence of COVID-19 on Stress, Substance Use, and Mental Health Among Postsecondary Students

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Emerging adults, including post-secondary education students, are disproportionately affected by the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The speed with which society moved in attempt to minimize the spread of the virus left many students with uncertainty and concern about their health, mental health, and academic futures. Considering that post-secondary students are a population at risk, it is important to determine how students respond in the face of the pandemic, and what coping mechanisms or supports will result in improved mental health outcomes. This knowledge will be helpful for post-secondary institutions to understand how COVID-19 has influenced the health and well-being of their students, and may facilitate the implementation of strategies to support their students. This narrative review explores evidence on how COVID-19 has impacted students with the overall goal to provide a set of recommendations to post-secondary institutions to help meet the evolving needs of this population.

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“…Research investigating cyberbullying among adults in the general population is scarce, with even fewer studies examining the link between cyberbullying and mental health in adults. Yet, cyberbullying may manifest differently in and have a differential impact on adult vs. youth populations (9,18,19). This may especially be the case for cyberbullying on social media, given differences in degree of social media use and the use of specific social media platforms between teens and adults (20).…”

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“…A number of studies have also found that social media use is predictive of poorer mental health. Meta-analyses, for instance, have revealed a small but statistically significant positive correlation between degree of daily social media use and depression (19,27), with evidence of a stronger link in adult compared to adolescent samples [ (19); see also (28)(29)(30)]. Greater daily social media use has also been associated with heightened dispositional anxiety and an increased likelihood of meeting the clinical criteria for an anxiety disorder (31).…”

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Cyberbullying and Mental Health in Adults: The Moderating Role of Social Media Use and Gender

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Previous research has identified a link between mental health and cyberbullying, primarily in studies of youth. Fewer studies have examined cyberbullying in adults or how the relation between mental health and cyberbullying might vary based on an individual's social media use. The present research examined how three indicators of mental health—depression, anxiety, and substance use—interact with social media use and gender to predict cyberbullying in adults. In Study 1, U.S. adults recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 525) completed an online survey that included measures of mental health and cyberbullying. Multiple regression analyses revealed significant three-way interactions between mental health, degree of social media use, and gender in models predicting cyberbullying victimization and perpetration. Specifically, for men, depression and anxiety predicted greater cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, particularly among men with relatively higher levels of social media use. In contrast, depression and anxiety were uncorrelated with cyberbullying for women, regardless of level of social media use. Study 2 largely replicated these findings using well-validated measures of mental health (e.g., Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Global Appraisal of Individual Needs Substance Use scale) in U.S. adults recruited through Prolific.co (N = 482). Together, these results underscore the importance of examining mental health correlates of cyberbullying within the context of social media use and gender and shed light on conditions in which indicators of mental health may be especially beneficial for predicting cyberbullying in adults.

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Social Media and Depression Symptoms: a Meta-Analysis

Cited by 132 publications

References 44 publications

Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

The Influence of COVID-19 on Stress, Substance Use, and Mental Health Among Postsecondary Students

Cyberbullying and Mental Health in Adults: The Moderating Role of Social Media Use and Gender

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