Teacher Education School, Shaoguan University, Shaoguan 512005, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 19;19(20):13496. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013496.
Social media is used daily by a significant number of young people and can have an important influence on the well-being of its users. The aim of this study was to determine the motives for social media use among Chinese youth and whether social media addiction associates with depression. Another objective was to analyze possible mediating and moderating effects in explaining the association between social media addiction and depression. Participants were 1652 secondary school students (51.5% boys and 48.5% girls) aged 12-18 years in China. The results showed that attention bias mediated the association between social media addiction and depression when adolescents' socio-emotional competencies were low, but not as strong when their socio-emotional competencies were high. The findings not only provided theoretical support for preventing the negative effects of mobile social media addiction, but could also directly contribute to improving adolescents' quality of life.
社交媒体被大量年轻人日常使用,对其用户的幸福感有重要影响。本研究旨在确定中国青少年使用社交媒体的动机,以及社交媒体成瘾是否与抑郁有关。另一个目的是分析可能的中介和调节作用,以解释社交媒体成瘾与抑郁之间的关联。参与者为中国 12-18 岁的 1652 名中学生(51.5%为男生,48.5%为女生)。结果表明,当青少年的社会情感能力较低时,注意偏差中介了社交媒体成瘾与抑郁之间的关联,但当他们的社会情感能力较高时,这种关联并不那么强烈。研究结果不仅为预防移动社交媒体成瘾的负面影响提供了理论支持,而且可以直接有助于提高青少年的生活质量。