When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI:10.1177/00936502241233787

Lara Schreurs, Angela Y. Lee, Xun “Sunny” Liu, Jeffrey T. Hancock

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Abstract

While social media is assumed to exacerbate adolescents’ depressive symptoms, research findings are ambiguous. One way to move the field forward is by looking beyond time spent on social media and considering subjective experiences. The current three-wave longitudinal panel study examines the within- and between-person relations between adolescents’ self-worth dependency on social media feedback and depressive symptoms. About 1,607 adolescents participated in two of the three waves, yet a third had to be excluded due to failing an attention check. Among the analytical sample of 1,032 adolescents, we found that adolescents who derived more of their self-worth from social media feedback were also more depressed, as indicated by a positive correlation at the between-person level. No support was found for within-person associations over time. These results highlight the need to examine effects of subjective experiences with social media by separating within- and between-person dynamics to reach more precise conclusions.

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当青少年的自我价值取决于他们在社交媒体上的反馈时：与抑郁症状有关的纵向调查

虽然社交媒体被认为会加重青少年的抑郁症状，但研究结果却模棱两可。推动这一领域向前发展的一种方法是，超越在社交媒体上花费的时间，考虑主观体验。目前的三波纵向小组研究考察了青少年对社交媒体反馈的自我价值依赖与抑郁症状之间的人内和人际关系。约有 1,607 名青少年参加了三个波次中的两个波次，但有三分之一的青少年因未通过注意力检查而被排除在外。在由 1032 名青少年组成的分析样本中，我们发现更多从社交媒体反馈中获得自我价值的青少年也更抑郁，这在人与人之间存在正相关。人与人之间的相关性并没有随着时间的推移而增强。这些结果突出表明，有必要通过分离人内和人际动态来研究社交媒体主观体验的影响，从而得出更准确的结论。

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Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Critieria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organiations, and cultures.