Top Research Papers on Social Media and Mental Health

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

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.

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

Findings are reported on the potential of leveraging social media postings as a new type of lens in understanding mental illness in individuals and populations to provide finer grained measurements of behavior over time while radically expanding population sample sizes.

Findings are reported on the potential of leveraging social media postings as a new type of lens in understanding mental illness in individuals and populations to provide finer grained measurements of behavior over time while radically expanding population sample sizes.

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.

Purpose This study rigorously explores how social media functions as a supportive mental health resource and a potential risk factor, focusing on diverse and marginalized populations. Drawing on three theoretical frameworks – the technology acceptance model (TAM), self-determination theory (SDT) and social influence theory – the research examines how algorithmic biases, platform features and cultural norms intersect to shape anxiety, depression and self-esteem. Through this lens, this study aims to inform evidence-based strategies that address digital literacy, foster ethical artificial intell...

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.

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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 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.

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.

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 ...

Results suggest that not only network connections may act as strong predictors of mental health, but that these models may actually outperform standard baseline alternatives that rely on text data alone, which may be seen as a first step towards more sophisticated architectures that may actually combine textual and non-textual information.