Masciantonio Alexandra, Résibois Maxime, Bouchat Pierre, Bourguignon David
Maastricht University, NL.
CRéSaM (Centre de Référence en SantéMentale), BE.
Int Rev Soc Psychol. 2023 May 5;36:6. doi: 10.5334/irsp.736. eCollection 2023.
Are social network sites harmful to our well-being? Despite the topicality of this question, the literature is still inconsistent. Possible reasons include the over-use of cross-sectional designs, the centration on Facebook, and the omission of the different ways of using these platforms. Two preregistered experimental studies were therefore conducted to investigate the effects of passive and active usages of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on subjective well-being. For both the first (N = 244) and the second (N = 164) study, the results did not yield any significant effects of the type of social network sites and their passive-active usages on subjective well-being. In contrast, surfing content was associated with subjective well-being in Study 2: the more positive the content was, the more life satisfaction increased, and the more the negative affect decreased. Further investigation of this research question will be necessary in larger samples, including longitudinal studies that could provide greater ecological validity while testing the effects of social network sites in the long-term. These findings are therefore to be taken with caution; above all, they open new avenues of research to understand the relationship between social network sites and subjective well-being.
社交网站对我们的幸福有害吗？尽管这个问题很热门，但相关文献仍存在不一致的观点。可能的原因包括过度使用横断面设计、以脸书为中心以及忽略了使用这些平台的不同方式。因此，进行了两项预先注册的实验研究，以调查被动和主动使用脸书、照片墙和推特对主观幸福感的影响。对于第一项研究（N = 244）和第二项研究（N = 164），结果均未显示社交网站类型及其被动-主动使用方式对主观幸福感有任何显著影响。相比之下，在第二项研究中，浏览内容与主观幸福感相关：内容越积极，生活满意度提高得越多，负面影响减少得越多。在更大的样本中进一步研究这个问题是必要的，包括纵向研究，这类研究在长期测试社交网站的影响时可以提供更高的生态效度。因此，这些发现应谨慎看待；最重要的是，它们为理解社交网站与主观幸福感之间的关系开辟了新的研究途径。
