Center for Behavioral Health Research, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, 282 Washington Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, USA.
Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Aug;48(8):1469-1493. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01060-9. Epub 2019 Jun 29.
Despite the salience of the social media context to psychosocial development, little is known about social media use patterns and how they relate to psychological and social functioning over time during early adolescence. This longitudinal study, therefore, identified subgroups of early adolescents based on their social media use and examined whether these subgroups predicted psychosocial functioning. Adolescents (N = 1205; 11-14 years; 51% female; 51% white) completed surveys at baseline and a six-month follow-up. There were three social media use subgroups at baseline: high overall social media use (8%); high Instagram/Snapchat use (53%); and low overall social media use (39%). The high social media use subgroup predicted higher depressive symptoms, panic disorder symptoms, delinquent behaviors, family conflict, as well as lower family and friend support, than the High-Instagram/Snapchat and low social media use subgroups. The high Instagram/Snapchat use subgroup predicted higher delinquent behaviors and school avoidance than the low social media use subgroup, but also higher close friendship competence and friend support as compared to both the high social media use and low social media use subgroups. Social media use patterns appear to differentially predict psychosocial adjustment during early adolescence, with high social media use being the most problematic and patterns of high Instagram/Snapchat use and low social media use having distinct developmental tradeoffs.
尽管社交媒体背景对心理社会发展很重要，但人们对青少年早期社交媒体使用模式及其与心理和社会功能的关系知之甚少。因此，本纵向研究根据青少年的社交媒体使用情况将他们分为不同的小组，并探讨了这些小组是否可以预测心理社会功能。研究对象为 1205 名青少年（年龄 11-14 岁，其中 51%为女性，51%为白人），他们在基线和六个月后完成了调查。在基线时有三个社交媒体使用小组：高总体社交媒体使用（8%）；高 Instagram/Snapchat 使用（53%）；低总体社交媒体使用（39%）。与高 Instagram/Snapchat 使用组和低社交媒体使用组相比，高社交媒体使用组的青少年抑郁症状、惊恐障碍症状、不良行为、家庭冲突以及家庭和朋友支持度较低。高 Instagram/Snapchat 使用组比低社交媒体使用组有更多的不良行为和逃学行为，但与高社交媒体使用组和低社交媒体使用组相比，高 Instagram/Snapchat 使用组的亲密友谊能力和朋友支持度更高。社交媒体使用模式似乎会对青少年早期的心理社会适应产生不同的影响，其中高社交媒体使用的问题最为突出，高 Instagram/Snapchat 使用和低社交媒体使用的模式则存在明显的发展权衡。
