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Plurality in the Measurement of Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among Adolescents and Young Adults

机译:多元在社交媒体使用和心理健康的测量中:青少年和年轻成年人的探索性研究

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On a daily basis, individuals between 12 and 25?years of age engage with their mobile devices for many hours. Social Media Use (SMU) has important implications for the social life of younger individuals in particular. However, measuring SMU and its effects often poses challenges to researchers. In this exploratory study, we focus on some of these challenges, by addressing how plurality in the measurement and age-specific characteristics of SMU can influence its relationship with measures of subjective mental health (MH). We conducted a survey among a nationally representative sample of Dutch adolescents and young adults ( N ?=?3,669). Using these data, we show that measures of SMU show little similarity with each other, and that age-group differences underlie SMU. Similar to the small associations previously shown in social media-effects research, we also find some evidence that greater SMU associates to drops and to increases in MH. Albeit nuanced, associations between SMU and MH were found to be characterized by both linear and quadratic functions. These findings bear implications for the level of association between different measures of SMU and its theorized relationship with other dependent variables of interest in media-effects research.
机译:每天在每天,12到25岁之间的个人在数年间与他们的移动设备合作数小时。社交媒体使用(SMU)特别是对年轻人的社会生活对年轻人的重要意义。然而,测量SMU及其效果通常对研究人员带来挑战。在这个探索性研究中,我们专注于一些这些挑战,通过解决SMU的测量和年龄特征,可以影响其与主观心理健康措施(MH)的关系。我们在荷兰青少年和年轻成年人的国家代表性样本进行了调查(N?= 3,669)。使用这些数据,我们表明SMU的措施彼此略微相似,并且年龄段差异基于SMU。类似于以前在社交媒体效应研究中显示的小关联,我们还发现一些证据表明,更大的SMU联系人下降并增加MH。尽管对SMU和MH之间的关联,发现了线性和二次函数之间的特征。这些发现对SMU不同措施与其与媒体效应研究的其他依赖变量的理论相关关系之间的关联程度的影响。

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