Hamilton Jessica L, Dreier Melissa J, Caproni Bianca, Fedor Jennifer, Durica Krina C, Low Carissa A
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 53 Avenue E., Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
J Technol Behav Sci. 2025;10(2):301-319. doi: 10.1007/s41347-024-00443-5. Epub 2024 Oct 18.
The impact of social media (SM) use ('screentime') on adolescent mental health has been the focus of increasing concern, despite mixed findings from empirical research. Current methodological approaches rely on self-reported SM use, which has limited accuracy and obscure the dynamic interplay of SM use and mental health. Smartphone-based mobile sensing offers new opportunities to gain insights into adolescents' SM use patterns and behaviors, particularly at an idiographic level. Considerations and challenges of smartphone sensing methods for capturing adolescents' SM use patterns and behaviors in clinical psychological science are discussed in the context of a pilot study using smartphone-based sensing with adolescents. The pilot study included 19 adolescents (Mean age = 15.84; 68% boys; 79% White) who installed a passive monitoring application (AWARE) on their phones for 31 (SD = 5.6) days. Descriptive data of sensing acceptability and feasibility are presented based on participant ratings and data yield ratio of usable data (74.18%). Sensing yielded 10,038 hourly observations collected from the 'application foreground' sensor across all participants from social media apps, and a total of 645 applications used. Categorization of SM apps were coded (kappa >.90) into 'social networking' (N = 20 apps) and 'broader SM' (N = 41) and compared to both Play Store-defined SM apps (N = 26) and popular SM apps based on Common Sense Media Survey (N = 9). Descriptive data on extracted behavioral features (duration, checking) from SM use categories (binned hourly and daily) are presented. Challenges, opportunities, and future directions of sensing methods for SM use are discussed to inform our understanding of its impacts on mental health and to improve the rigor of SM research in clinical psychological science.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41347-024-00443-5.
尽管实证研究结果不一，但社交媒体（SM）使用（“屏幕时间”）对青少年心理健康的影响一直是越来越受关注的焦点。当前的方法依赖于自我报告的SM使用情况，其准确性有限，且掩盖了SM使用与心理健康之间的动态相互作用。基于智能手机的移动传感为深入了解青少年的SM使用模式和行为提供了新机会，特别是在个体层面。在一项针对青少年的基于智能手机传感的试点研究背景下，讨论了用于捕捉青少年SM使用模式和行为的智能手机传感方法的考虑因素和挑战。该试点研究包括19名青少年（平均年龄=15.84岁；68%为男孩；79%为白人），他们在手机上安装了一个被动监测应用程序（AWARE），持续31天（标准差=5.6）。基于参与者评分和可用数据的产率（74.18%），给出了传感可接受性和可行性的描述性数据。传感产生了从所有参与者的社交媒体应用程序的“应用程序前台”传感器收集的10038个每小时观测值，总共使用了645个应用程序。SM应用程序被编码（kappa>.90）为“社交网络”（N = 20个应用程序）和“更广泛的SM”（N = 41个），并与Play商店定义的SM应用程序（N = 26个）和基于常识媒体调查的流行SM应用程序（N = 9个）进行比较。给出了从SM使用类别（按小时和天分组）中提取的行为特征（持续时间、检查）的描述性数据。讨论了SM使用传感方法的挑战、机会和未来方向，以增进我们对其对心理健康影响的理解，并提高临床心理科学中SM研究的严谨性。
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