Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University (VTC), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.
Int Rev Psychiatry. 2020 Nov-Dec;32(7-8):723-745. doi: 10.1080/09540261.2020.1809357. Epub 2020 Oct 5.
The 4th Industrial Revolution has provided several digital platforms through which to disseminate scalable and cost-effective interventions (e.g. Apps and Social media). Instagram, a popular visual-ethnographic social media platform, could be employed to implement and scale interventions aimed at aiding individuals in discovering meaning in life and gratitude through capturing and reflecting upon photographs of meaningful moments. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of a brief photo-ethnographic meaningful-moments intervention aimed at enhancing wellbeing (life satisfaction) and managing common mental health problems (stress/depression/anxiety) through Instagram. A 4 × 1 treatment-only intervention design was used to assess the immediate and long-term changes in meaning, gratitude, life satisfaction, and depression/stress/anxiety. Within-person development on the subscales was evaluated with Bayesian level and shape models. The results showed significant improvements in all factors directly after the intervention. Over the long term, significant changes with baseline measures for the presence of meaning, appreciation for others, and life satisfaction was found. Participants also reported a significant but small change in depression over the long term. Instagram could therefore be an interesting tool to consider when the aim is to enhance wellbeing and manage common mental health problems in the short-, medium- and long-term.
第四次工业革命提供了多个数字平台，可通过这些平台传播具有可扩展性和成本效益的干预措施（例如应用程序和社交媒体）。Instagram 是一个流行的视觉民族志社交媒体平台，可以用来实施和扩展干预措施，旨在通过拍摄和反思有意义的瞬间的照片，帮助个人发现生活的意义和感恩之情。本研究的目的是评估一项简短的照片民族志有意义瞬间干预措施的长期效果，该干预措施旨在通过 Instagram 增强幸福感（生活满意度）和管理常见的心理健康问题（压力/抑郁/焦虑）。使用 4×1 仅治疗干预设计来评估意义、感激、生活满意度和抑郁/压力/焦虑的即时和长期变化。使用贝叶斯水平和形状模型评估子量表的个体内发展。结果表明，干预后所有因素都有显著改善。从长期来看，与基线相比，意义、对他人的欣赏和生活满意度方面存在显著变化。参与者还报告说，长期来看，抑郁的变化虽小但显著。因此，当目标是在短期、中期和长期内增强幸福感和管理常见心理健康问题时，Instagram 可能是一个有趣的工具。
