Vonk Lisanne, Putrik Polina, van Amelsvoort Thérèse, Vanluydt Elien, Delespaul Philippe, Levels Mark, Huijts Tim
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Department of Social Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Jan 20;22(1):131. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22010131.
Social media use has rapidly increased over the past decade, especially among young people. To obtain more insight into the potential negative associations with problematic social media use in Dutch early adolescents, we assessed its relation to self-reported well-being. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 585 students in their final year of primary school (11-12 years old) who completed a questionnaire during school hours. We examined the association between problematic social media use and psychosomatic complaints, as well as general life satisfaction and whether perceived social support and sex moderated these associations. Problematic social media use was associated with lower general life satisfaction, as well as all psychosomatic complaints, with the strongest association for having a bad mood or feeling irritated (OR = 3.08, 99% CI = 2.05-4.63). Most associations were not moderated by perceived social support or sex. Our findings indicate that the well-being of early adolescents may be affected by problematic social media use already in primary school. The association persisted regardless of the amount of perceived social support, and without strong gender differences. This suggests that the potential for limiting the potential negative consequences of problematic social media use through increasing social support is limited.
在过去十年中，社交媒体的使用迅速增加，尤其是在年轻人中。为了更深入了解荷兰青少年早期使用问题社交媒体的潜在负面关联，我们评估了其与自我报告幸福感的关系。我们对585名小学最后一年（11 - 12岁）的学生进行了一项横断面研究，他们在上课时间完成了一份问卷。我们研究了问题社交媒体使用与身心症状、总体生活满意度之间的关联，以及感知到的社会支持和性别是否调节了这些关联。问题社交媒体使用与较低的总体生活满意度以及所有身心症状相关，其中与情绪不好或感到烦躁的关联最强（OR = 3.08，99% CI = 2.05 - 4.63）。大多数关联不受感知到的社会支持或性别的调节。我们的研究结果表明，青少年早期的幸福感可能在小学阶段就受到问题社交媒体使用的影响。无论感知到的社会支持程度如何，这种关联都持续存在，并且没有明显的性别差异。这表明通过增加社会支持来限制问题社交媒体使用潜在负面影响的可能性有限。
