Griffioen Nastasia, Lichtwarck-Aschoff Anna, van Rooij Marieke, Granic Isabela
Games for Emotional and Mental Health Lab, Behavioural Science Institute, Department of Developmental Psychopathology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2021 Dec 24;12:789302. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.789302. eCollection 2021.
Literature concerning the relationship between social media use and wellbeing is inconsistent in its findings, and most research has focused on time spent on social media rather than on what emerging adults do there, with whom and why. Here, we investigated whether momentary social stress affects emerging adults' social media use, and whether this social media use relates to subsequent changes in wellbeing. We implemented a multi-method paradigm utilising objective and self-report data to investigate how social stress relates to how (much) and why emerging adults use social media. We report on findings based on 114 17-25-year-old emerging adults recruited on university campus. Our findings suggest that social stress does not affect adolescents' subsequent social media use and that there is no relationship between social media use after stress and changes in momentary wellbeing. Our work illustrates the need for detailed approaches in social media and psychological wellbeing research.
关于社交媒体使用与幸福感之间关系的文献研究结果并不一致，并且大多数研究都集中在花在社交媒体上的时间，而非新兴成年人在那里做什么、与谁一起以及为什么这样做。在此，我们调查了瞬间的社会压力是否会影响新兴成年人的社交媒体使用，以及这种社交媒体使用是否与幸福感的后续变化相关。我们采用了一种多方法范式，利用客观数据和自我报告数据来研究社会压力与新兴成年人使用社交媒体的方式（多少）及原因之间的关系。我们报告了基于在大学校园招募的114名17至25岁新兴成年人的研究结果。我们的研究结果表明，社会压力不会影响青少年随后的社交媒体使用，并且压力后的社交媒体使用与瞬间幸福感的变化之间没有关系。我们的工作表明在社交媒体和心理健康研究中需要采用详细的方法。
