Vuorre Matti, Przybylski Andrew K
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3JS, UK.
Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
R Soc Open Sci. 2023 Aug 9;10(8):221451. doi: 10.1098/rsos.221451. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Social media's potential effects on well-being have received considerable research interest, but much of past work is hampered by an exclusive focus on demographics in the Global North and inaccurate self-reports of social media engagement. We describe associations linking 72 countries' Facebook adoption to the well-being of 946 798 individuals from 2008 to 2019. We found no evidence suggesting that the global penetration of social media is associated with widespread psychological harm: Facebook adoption predicted life satisfaction and positive experiences positively, and negative experiences negatively, both between countries and within countries over time. Nevertheless, the observed associations were small and did not reach a conventional 97.5% one-sided credibility threshold in all cases. Facebook adoption predicted aspects of well-being more positively for younger individuals, but country-specific results were mixed. To move beyond studying aggregates and to better understand social media's roles in people's lives, and their potential causal effects, we need more transparent collaborative research between independent scientists and the technology industry.
社交媒体对幸福感的潜在影响已引起了相当多的研究关注，但过去的许多研究都因只关注全球北方地区的人口统计数据以及社交媒体参与度的不准确自我报告而受到阻碍。我们描述了2008年至2019年期间72个国家的脸书使用情况与946798个人幸福感之间的关联。我们没有发现证据表明社交媒体的全球普及与广泛的心理伤害有关：脸书的使用在国家之间以及随着时间推移在国家内部，都对生活满意度和积极体验有正向预测作用，对消极体验有负向预测作用。然而，观察到的关联较小，并非在所有情况下都达到传统的97.5%单侧可信度阈值。脸书的使用对较年轻个体的幸福感各方面有更积极的预测作用，但特定国家的结果参差不齐。为了超越对总体情况的研究，更好地理解社交媒体在人们生活中的作用及其潜在因果效应，我们需要独立科学家和科技行业之间进行更透明的合作研究。
