Improving the Science of Adolescent Social Media and Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities of Smartphone-Based Mobile Sensing and Digital Phenotyping.

Jessica L Hamilton, Melissa J Dreier, Bianca Caproni, Jennifer Fedor, Krina C Durica, Carissa A Low
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The impact of social media (SM) use ('screentime') on adolescent mental health has been the focus of increasing concern, despite mixed findings from empirical research. Current methodological approaches rely on self-reported SM use, which has limited accuracy and obscure the dynamic interplay of SM use and mental health. Smartphone-based mobile sensing offers new opportunities to gain insights into adolescents' SM use patterns and behaviors, particularly at an idiographic level. Considerations and challenges of smartphone sensing methods for capturing adolescents' SM use patterns and behaviors in clinical psychological science are discussed in the context of a pilot study using smartphone-based sensing with adolescents. The pilot study included 19 adolescents (Mean age = 15.84; 68% boys; 79% White) who installed a passive monitoring application (AWARE) on their phones for 31 (SD = 5.6) days. Descriptive data of sensing acceptability and feasibility are presented based on participant ratings and data yield ratio of usable data (74.18%). Sensing yielded 10,038 hourly observations collected from the 'application foreground' sensor across all participants from social media apps, and a total of 645 applications used. Categorization of SM apps were coded (kappa >.90) into 'social networking' (N = 20 apps) and 'broader SM' (N = 41) and compared to both Play Store-defined SM apps (N = 26) and popular SM apps based on Common Sense Media Survey (N = 9). Descriptive data on extracted behavioral features (duration, checking) from SM use categories (binned hourly and daily) are presented. Challenges, opportunities, and future directions of sensing methods for SM use are discussed to inform our understanding of its impacts on mental health and to improve the rigor of SM research in clinical psychological science.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41347-024-00443-5.

改善青少年社交媒体和心理健康的科学:基于智能手机的移动传感和数字表型的挑战和机遇。
尽管实证研究的结果喜忧参半,但社交媒体(SM)使用(“屏幕时间”)对青少年心理健康的影响一直是人们越来越关注的焦点。目前的方法方法依赖于自我报告的SM使用情况,其准确性有限,并且模糊了SM使用与心理健康之间的动态相互作用。基于智能手机的移动传感为深入了解青少年的SM使用模式和行为提供了新的机会,特别是在具体水平上。在一项基于智能手机的青少年感知试点研究的背景下,讨论了智能手机感知方法在临床心理科学中捕捉青少年SM使用模式和行为的考虑和挑战。初步研究纳入19名青少年(平均年龄15.84岁;68%的男孩;79%的白人)在他们的手机上安装了被动监控应用程序(AWARE) 31天(SD = 5.6)。基于参与者评分和可用数据的数据良率(74.18%),给出了感知可接受性和可行性的描述性数据。“应用前景”传感器收集了10038个小时的观察结果,这些观察结果来自社交媒体应用的所有参与者,总共使用了645个应用。SM应用的分类被编码为“社交网络”(N = 20个应用)和“更广泛的SM”(N = 41),并与Play store定义的SM应用(N = 26)和基于常识媒体调查的流行SM应用(N = 9)进行比较。从SM使用类别(每小时和每天分类)中提取的行为特征(持续时间,检查)的描述性数据。本文讨论了SM使用感知方法的挑战、机遇和未来发展方向,以帮助我们了解其对心理健康的影响,并提高临床心理科学中SM研究的严谨性。补充信息:在线版本包含补充资料,下载地址:10.1007/s41347-024-00443-5。
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