Review Jurnal: Does Time Spent Using Social Media Impact Mental Health?: An Eight Year Longitudinal Study

Abstract

The rise of the use of social media has become part of the development of adolescent life. Many people say that the massive use of social media affects the mental health of adolescents. Even so, there is no research that conclusively states that various adolescent mental health problems are caused entirely by social media use. This is mainly because the research conducted is still cross-sectional in nature and ignores long-term changes so that many factors can influence simultaneously. This paper reviews a scientific article entitled: Does Time Spent Using Social Media Impact Mental Health?: An Eight-Year Longitudinal Study (Coyne, Rogers, Zurcher, Stockdale, & Booth, 2020). This study tries to investigate over a long period of time, whether the use of social media affects mental health in adolescents? Or is there something else that is the real cause? And how should the use of social media not harm teenagers?