Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States of America.
Prevention and Treatment in Clinical Health Lab, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.
Psychiatr Q. 2024 Dec;95(4):497-515. doi: 10.1007/s11126-024-10085-8. Epub 2024 Aug 22.
The number of social media users has increased dramatically in recent years. Common correlates of social media use may be poor mental and sleep health which are pressing issues among emerging adults and Hispanic groups. This study investigated the relationships between five different forms of social media use and mental and sleep health in Hispanic university emerging adults. Hispanic university emerging adults (n = 358) completed a survey assessing sociodemographics, overall social media use frequency, nighttime in-bed social media use, social media addiction, social media self-control failure, emotional investment in social media, depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality. Findings demonstrated that social media addiction and social media self-control failure were positively associated with stress and poor sleep quality. Emotional investment in social media was positively associated with depression. Findings may suggest that Hispanic university emerging adults may use social media emotionally and problematically to cope with negative affect and poor sleep quality, or that negative affect and poor sleep quality stem from using social media emotionally and problematically. The clinical implications of these results are discussed. Prospective studies are warranted to assess temporality.
近年来，社交媒体用户数量急剧增加。社交媒体使用的常见相关因素可能是心理健康和睡眠健康状况不佳，这是青年人和西班牙裔群体面临的紧迫问题。本研究调查了五种不同形式的社交媒体使用与西班牙裔大学生心理健康和睡眠健康之间的关系。358 名西班牙裔大学生完成了一项调查，评估了社会人口统计学、社交媒体使用总频率、夜间床上使用社交媒体、社交媒体成瘾、社交媒体自我控制失败、对社交媒体的情感投入、抑郁、焦虑、压力和睡眠质量。研究结果表明，社交媒体成瘾和社交媒体自我控制失败与压力和睡眠质量差呈正相关。对社交媒体的情感投入与抑郁呈正相关。研究结果可能表明，西班牙裔大学生可能会情绪化地、以问题的方式使用社交媒体来应对负面情绪和睡眠质量差，或者负面情绪和睡眠质量差源于情绪化地、以问题的方式使用社交媒体。讨论了这些结果的临床意义。有必要进行前瞻性研究以评估时间性。
