Erdem Hazal Dilan, Herrero Juan, Urueña Alberto
Universidad de Oviedo Oviedo Spain Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid Spain Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
Psychosoc Interv. 2025 Jul 29;34(3):189-200. doi: 10.5093/pi2025a15. eCollection 2025 Sep.
As societies become increasingly digitalized, users engage in digital communication flows and participate actively and responsively while managing the demands of constant connectivity. This overwhelming volume of communication can lead to social pressure, which has been associated with compulsive digital behavior and may negatively affect psychological and social adjustment. This study aimed at investigating the longitudinal and bidirectional relationships between social pressure in digital contexts, depressive symptoms, and social support, focusing on how social pressure may affect psychological and social adjustment over time. Previous research on social pressure has mostly relied on cross-sectional or, at best, two-panel cross-lagged designs. In this study, random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) were used and a three-wave longitudinal design to examine bidirectional relationships between social pressure, depressive symptoms, and social support in a sample of 1,878 participants that were representative of the Spanish internet population. Our results indicated that increases in social pressure were associated with elevated depressive symptoms and diminished social support over time. Conversely, increases in depressive symptoms and decreases in social support were not associated with changes in social pressure over time. While social pressure in digital contexts had adverse effects on the psychological and social adjustment of users over time (i.e., high depressive symptoms and low social support), it remained unresponsive to variations in users' adjustment over time. These findings underscore the importance of considering the contextual nature of social pressure in digital environments to better inform policy interventions aimed at improving users' digital well-being.
随着社会日益数字化，用户参与数字通信流，并在应对持续连接需求的同时积极且迅速地参与其中。这种海量的通信可能会导致社会压力，而社会压力与强迫性数字行为有关，可能会对心理和社会适应产生负面影响。本研究旨在调查数字环境中的社会压力、抑郁症状和社会支持之间的纵向和双向关系，重点关注社会压力如何随时间影响心理和社会适应。以往关于社会压力的研究大多依赖于横断面研究，或者充其量是双面板交叉滞后设计。在本研究中，使用了随机截距交叉滞后面板模型（RI-CLPMs）和三波纵向设计，以检验1878名代表西班牙互联网人群的参与者样本中社会压力、抑郁症状和社会支持之间的双向关系。我们的结果表明，随着时间的推移，社会压力的增加与抑郁症状的加重和社会支持的减少有关。相反，抑郁症状的增加和社会支持的减少与社会压力随时间的变化无关。虽然数字环境中的社会压力随着时间的推移对用户的心理和社会适应产生了不利影响（即高抑郁症状和低社会支持），但它对用户随时间的适应变化没有反应。这些发现强调了考虑数字环境中社会压力的背景性质对于更好地为旨在改善用户数字福祉的政策干预提供信息的重要性。
