Top Research Papers on Social Media and Mental Health

Can (and should) Instagram shield youth from cosmetic surgery procedure posts?

This commentary discusses two longitudinal studies to elaborate these contracting findings on social media and mental health and collects an accurate measure of social media use and other methodological challenges particularly affect data in this area.

Experts say review of children's social media use must include technical issues and access to education

The platforms are designed to be addictive and are associated with anxiety, depression and even physical ailments, and social media use can affect users’ physical health even more directly.

Abstract There is a wide body of research on the effects of social media use on mental health, particularly focusing on young people. However, very little is known about the mental health of social media influencers (SMIs), who also tend to be quite young. This is of growing significance as more of our daily lives is conducted online, and in the context of poor population mental health globally, which declined further as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We therefore set out to review the mental health of SMIs and, in the absence of literature on SMIs, drew on other similar but more tradition...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND TEENAGERS' MENTAL HEALTH. Social media are widely used daily especially amongst adolescents. The fast apparition and evolution of these platforms might be difficult to follow. Social Media can expose to risks that it is important to be aware of, in order to assess in clinical practice their impact on adolescents' health and to be able to provide useful guidance. After recalling what social media are and their characteristics, and giving the latest statistical data available, the problems encountered on them according to young people as well as their positive effects are expose...

How the increased opportunity to make social comparison may contribute to mental health difficulties may be investigated.

It is claimed that ranking via topic modeling is beneficial to fathom the relative importance of issues over the years, and tools/techniques from natural language processing and data mining are harnessed to discover knowledge from big data on social media, related to mental health.

Psychology![Figure][1] Adolescents using social media on their smartphones PHOTO: ISTOCK.COM/MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES There has been public concern that increasing social media use among adolescents may cause reduced well-being. Orben et al. analyzed social media use among more than 12,000 teenagers in the United Kingdom over the course of 8 years to determine whether increased social media use predicted reduced life satisfaction over time. They found virtually no effect of social media use on life satisfaction either between individuals or in the same individual across time. These results sug...

If social media use can be linked to negative outcomes, researchers need to devote more attention to understanding factors associated with negative mental health outcomes and how to tone down these outcomes.

Individuals with increased levels of social media usage were shown to have a positive correlation with depression symptoms, meaning as social media use increased, depression symptoms also increased.

This chapter highlights how social media data may be harnessed to reason about human mental and psychological well-being and reflects on how this new line of research bears potential for informing the design of timely and tailored interventions.

On an average, Indians spend an estimated 31⁄2 h daily using traditional media and 1 h and 29 min daily using social media, with the bulk of that time (76%) accessing SNSs through smartphones.

Research findings have consistently demonstrated a correlation between social media usage and heightened levels of anxiety, depression, as well as feelings of loneliness.

This chapter explores social media for mental health initiatives, with a focus on two case studies: Facebook's suicide prevention tools and the Bell Let's Talk campaign.

New findings challenge the notion that there is a looming mental health crisis in the U.S. and that the crisis is being caused by technology.

Web-based social networking is an online association site where individuals cooperate to construct, offer and change their thought and remarks with respect to any data. During the previous decade, online long range social networking communication has caused significant changes in the manner individuals convey and cooperate. A descriptive study was conducted among top 2 deemed universities in Chennai with a sample of 90 respondents. It included questions on demographical information, the pattern of social networking usage, social relationship and health effects. The results found that there is ...

Many studies have investigated the benefits and drawbacks of social media, but the impact it has on amateur sports participants who use it as part of their practice has been largely overlooked. This study addresses this gap, investigating the impacts of social media on the mental health of women participating in amateur sport activities – specifically, equestrian events through a mixed methods survey of 221 female amateur equestrians in the UK. Themes included the pressure to present a ‘perfect’ image to an external audience, the stress of comparison to others, and constant judgement around ...

Teenagers are active users of social media, especially Instagram. Based on research conducted by (Sakti &; Yulianto), as many as 59% of online users aged 18-29 years use Instagram. This study aims to explore the mental health conditions of students who are indicated to experience social media addiction where respondents are aged 18-22 years in the Jabodetabek area. Respondents were randomly selected who met the criteria, namely aged 18-22 years and were S-1 students at Jabodetabek University, filled out questionnaires distributed via google form and filled out questionnaires on social media ad...

Background. For a decade now, social media networks are expanding. Platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp show the highest user registration numbers. Especially in the age range 18 to 30 the amount of social media users is predominantly high. Previous research indicated that there may be a potential relation between social media use and mental health. More specific, a negative relation of social media use with psychological distress and a positive relation with mental well-being. Also, personality traits seem to play an important role when investigating social media behaviour patterns. The goal ...

Big data research of social media data may also support standard surveillance approaches and provide decision-makers with usable information about users' habits and activities.

Research is beginning to uncover how specific social media experiences may influence youth mental health, with social media now playing a central role in the lives of youth.

Purpose Today with the internet expansion, social media has also been identified as a factor in evolutions. Social media is the title used to refer to the set of sites and tools that have been born and developed in the space created by modern media such as communication networks, the internet and mobile phones. The effects of emerging phenomena, such as social media on human health, especially mental health, are important. As the effects of social media on users mental health is unclear, and the evidence in this field is contradictory, this study aims to determine the role of social media on ...

The paper attempts to investigate the impact of social networks and digital media on mental health and psychological well-being by using integrative anthropological approach, interpretive research paradigm, and multidisciplinary analysis.

Abstract: The rise of social media platforms has revolutionized the way adolescents interact and communicate. This paper aims to delve into the intricate relationship between social media usage and the mental health of adolescents. With the pervasive integration of social media in their lives, this study seeks to examine the potential implications on their mental well-being, specifically focusing on anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. The research methodology involves a comprehensive literature review of academic articles, studies, and surveys conducted on the subject matter. Analysis of var...

The paper presents a review of foreign studies on social and psychopathological consequences of self-objectification. The chief provisions of self-objectification theory, which is briefly discussed in the paper, includes the subject’s disposition to regard one’s body from the point of view of an external spectator, when one’s value is defined solely by one’s physical attractiveness in the eyes of others (B. Fredrickson, T. Roberts). Social networks are considered the ever-growing source of objectification and self-objectification due to the high popularity of sexualized content and the wide sp...

— Social media use during adolescence can adversely affect health and development. It could be safely assumed that social media is the most famous and preferred leisure activity among adolescents. Most teens report that social media gives positive contributions to their lives, but the modern research literature documented that social media use and a dolescents’ mental health are adversely connected. Social media is a double-edged sword, so it can affect their mental health in a constructive or destructive way. Hence the excess use of social media comes with some risks for adolescents. The pres...

Adolescents throughout the country regularly use internet, cellphones and videogames to gather information and communicate with each other. This ability to interact with each other’s is the unique features of social media which provides powerful new ways for adolescent to create and navigate their social environments. Social media use has been climbing sharply in recent years, especially in younger populations such as adolescents. Any website that allows social interactions considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Line, MySpace, Sky...

The simple truth is on our watch we have destroyed the planet that our youth will inherit, through brutal dictatorships, wars, and inaction on climate change causing fire, flood, drought and famine and a small greedy wealthy class that owns almost everything while the rest struggle. And while social media can cause cyber-bullying and suicide, violence against women and girls, depression and anxiety, it may also through its endless hype and distraction be attempting to deliberately blind young people to what is happening, particularly the obscene distribution of wealth. This is a double edged s...

About the Project This project analysed in-depth, qualitative material on new fathers’ experiences of mental health difficulties after having a baby. In particular, we focused on fathers' use of online communications as part of their coping practices. Arising out of a project funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the University of Surrey that centred on in depth interviews with 15 fathers in the UK, the project explored the intense difficulties men can endure in recognizing the nature of perinatal struggles and communicating with others about them. This brief report presents ...

Social media have become prominent parts of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative. Today we are as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends" than with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives. There are many positive aspects, but there are equally as many dangers that come with the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, Tumblr, Instagram, gaming sites, and blogs. In order to make the right choices, we must ...

This research explores the reliable detection of depressive symptoms from tweets obtained, unobtrusively and develops a multimodal framework and employing statistical techniques to fuse heterogeneous sets of features obtained through the processing of visual, textual, and user interaction data.

A methodology for providing insight into temporal mental health dynamics to be utilised for strategic decision-making is proposed and deployed during the global COVID-19 pandemic as a case study.

Evidence suggests that social media can impact detrimentally on children and young people ’ s mental health. At the same time, social media use can be beneficial and have positive effects. This chapter outlines the detrimental and positive effects of social media use for young people. Schools play a critical role in educating young people about how to use social media safely and responsibly. However, schools cannot address all the issues and parents, social media and advertising companies also have a responsibility to protect children and young people from harm. This chapter outlines some of t...

A precautionary public health response is needed

Teenagers spend a significant amount of time on social media with no age restrictions. Spending too much time on social media cause teenager to encounter health issues such as anxiety, depression, and inclination toward suicide. This paper examined the reason behind teenagers’ anxiety and depression was because spending time on social media limited their time to engage in face-to-face interactions. This study planned to conduct a questionnaire survey to collect data, and the research found that social media had various negative effects on teenagers’ mental health.

There is no doubt that varioussocial media platforms have transformed the new generation. The social media has resulted in the transformation of not only how this generation communicates, but has also transformed business, education and above all, the entertainment. Not only that the social media has made a lot of positive impacts on the human life, it has a lot of negative impacts on all age group as well, especially the youth. Addiction of social media is in trend and is a major contributing factor to rapid increase in several mental health issues. Some of the examples of the issues arising ...

The language of Reddit posts specific to mental health is investigated, to define linguistic characteristics that could be helpful for further applications and to demonstrate that there are also condition-specific vocabularies used in social media to communicate about particular disorders.

Mental health is a health issue that is gaining increasing global attention, especially in today's digital age. This research aims to understand the role of social communication in supporting public policies in the field of mental health. Excavate the impact of the use of social media on mental health that focuses on Generation Z, as a vulnerable group. The study describes the complexity of the relationship between social media and mental health and proposes a balanced approach to supporting public mental health in this digital age. The research methods used in this study are content analysis ...

Exploring and understanding the means with the help of which social media is affecting mental health of present younger generation is succeeding step which can illuminate the connections which are at play among these variables of young generation.

Many inventions like light, wheel, printing, sound etc. has been the base of human evolution since ages, but one innovation, which has really brought revolution in the recent times, is internet. Internet itself is a harmless tool but the latest phenomenon which are the social networking sites, have driven the mental health of the masses in a different way, especially of teenagers. The present paper talks about the affects of over use of social networking sites on the mental health of teenagers and offers some solutions to this problem. It is highlighted here that how the social networking site...

The goal of this review is to help providers effectively evaluate social media use in adolescent patients and provide guidance on its use to help preserve or improve their emotional well-being.

Young people are avid social media users and, as such, might be prone to mental health issues because of the comparison of the kind of life they see on social media. The study was anchored on the social comparison theory; hence, it investigated the influence of social media on the mental health of Afe Babalola University undergraduates. The survey design with a sample of 382 was chosen from the population of 8500 students. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique as respondents were chosen based on their usage of social media. It was discovered that increased use of social media lead...

This research paper focuses on the various effects that social media might have on the mental health of the teens of this generation and how taking a detox from this unhealthy addiction can be beneficial for us in the long run.

Waking up to a public health emergency.

Mental health has recently become the focus of attention within UK policy, with the proposed rehash of the Mental Health Act, and the new Power Threat Meaning framework, which aims to reduce the “medicalisation” of mental health.

With concerns over social media use, especially among young people, growing within recent years, research has looked into its ties to depression and anxiety. The current study proposes that FoMO may be a mediator between social media usage and mental health.

In this essay you are able to know more on the impact social media has on the authors' mental health.

The various benefits, risks, and opportunities presented by medical students' use of social media to disseminate mental health information are probed.

Mental health, commonly known as behavioral health, is the psychological, emotional, and social well-being of an individual. It mostly affects a person’s ideas, emotions, behaviors, and relationships with other people. The idea that social media use and mental health are inextricably related appears to be the most intricate and varied. The effect of social media on mental health is a complicated topic with many moving parts. According to a countrywide survey carried out in India, as of 2023, approximately 67.5% of adults in the country utilize at least one social networking site; this percenta...