“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI:10.1177/20563051241277603

Elien Beelen, Kathrin Karsay

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Abstract

Mental health content on social media usually highlights positive emotions, especially hope. This article presents an experimental study on the effects of hopeful social media posts on Instagram. Drawing on appraisal theory and the phenomenon of spillover effects, we developed a 2 × 2 between-subjects post-test experiment, where we manipulated the message type (i.e., hope message vs. control condition) and the level of endorsement (i.e., high vs. low number of likes) of Instagram posts. Following exposure to our media stimuli, we studied the effects on subsequent levels of hope, life satisfaction, mental health stigma, willingness to disclose about mental health, and willingness to provide support on social media among a sample of n = 479 young adults ( Mage = 20.97 years, SD = 2.10). Our pre-registered analysis revealed no significant main or interaction effects in the predicted direction. We discuss the findings in the context of health communication, reflect the study’s limitations, and provide suggestions for future research.

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"未来是光明的！是吗？调查社交媒体上充满希望的心理健康内容和认可线索的影响

社交媒体上的心理健康内容通常强调积极情绪，尤其是希望。本文介绍了一项关于 Instagram 上充满希望的社交媒体帖子效果的实验研究。借鉴评价理论和溢出效应现象，我们开发了一个 2 × 2 的被试间后测实验，在实验中，我们操纵了 Instagram 帖子的信息类型（即希望信息与对照条件）和认可程度（即高赞数与低赞数）。在接触我们的媒体刺激后，我们研究了其对后续希望水平、生活满意度、心理健康耻辱感、披露心理健康的意愿以及在社交媒体上提供支持的意愿的影响，研究对象为 n = 479 名年轻人（年龄 = 20.97 岁，SD = 2.10）。我们的预注册分析表明，在预测的方向上没有明显的主效应或交互效应。我们从健康传播的角度讨论了这些发现，反映了研究的局限性，并为今后的研究提供了建议。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.

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