Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1892-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean M. Twenge ◽  
Brian H. Spitzberg ◽  
W. Keith Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual

In nationally representative samples of U.S. adolescents (age: 13–18) and entering college students, 1976–2017 ( N = 8.2 million), iGen adolescents in the 2010s (vs. previous generations) spent less time on in-person (face-to-face) social interaction with peers, including getting together or socializing with friends, going to parties, going out, dating, going to movies, and riding in cars for fun. College-bound high school seniors in 2016 (vs. the late 1980s) spent an hour less a day engaging in in-person social interaction, despite declines in paid work and little change in homework or extracurricular activity time. The results suggest that time displacement occurs at the cohort level, with in-person social interaction declining as digital media use increased, but not at the individual level, where in-person social interaction and social media use are positively correlated. Adolescents’ feelings of loneliness increased sharply after 2011. Adolescents low in in-person social interaction and high in social media use reported the most loneliness.

The role of children’s independent mobility and social media use for face-to-face social interaction with friends

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1987-2009
Author(s):  
E. Owen D. Waygood ◽  
Lars E. Olsson ◽  
Ayako Taniguchi ◽  
Margareta Friman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Independent Mobility ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Face To Face

scholarly journals Social Media and Nurses: Insights for Promoting Health for Individual and Professional Use

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jackson ◽  
Robert Fraser ◽  
Peter Ash
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Nursing Health

Social media use can have a significant impact on the health of nurses, both at the individual level and in the workplace. There are positive and negative consequences of social media use for nurses, including potential health consequences. This article provides a brief overview of social media and then explores nursing health and social media and risks for nurses. Social media use also extends to healthcare organizations; with implications for consumers of healthcare delivery. A variety of emerging best practices can guide social media use for nurses. The authors also discuss suggestions for using social media carefully, and future directions for research.

scholarly journals Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms—A Longitudinal Study from Early to Late Adolescence

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Puukko ◽  
Lauri Hietajärvi ◽  
Erika Maksniemi ◽  
Kimmo Alho ◽  
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Late Adolescence ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Impact

An increasing number of studies have addressed how adolescents’ social media use is associated with depressive symptoms. However, few studies have examined whether these links occur longitudinally across adolescence when examined at the individual level of development. This study investigated the within-person effects between active social media use and depressive symptoms using a five-wave longitudinal dataset gathered from 2891 Finnish adolescents (42.7% male, age range 13–19 years). Sensitivity analysis was conducted, adjusting for gender and family financial status. The results indicate that depressive symptoms predicted small increases in active social media use during both early and late adolescence, whereas no evidence of the reverse relationship was found. Yet, the associations were very small, statistically weak, and somewhat inconsistent over time. The results provide support for the growing notion that the previously reported direct links between social media use and depressive symptoms might be exaggerated. Based on these findings, we suggest that the impact of social media on adolescents’ well-being should be approached through methodological assumptions that focus on individual-level development.

Transnational Nonprofits’ Social Media Use: A Survey of Communications Professionals and an Analysis of Organizational Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo ◽  
Hong Tien Vu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
External Communication ◽  
Communication Goals ◽  
The Individual

In response to rapid changes in the communication environment, nonprofits are increasingly relying on digital technologies to achieve their communication goals. We examine factors influencing nonprofits’ digital-based external communication based on a survey of communications directors at transnational nonprofits, with an analysis of each organization’s characteristics as described on its Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 and website. Our results show that, at the organizational level, nonprofits with stronger leadership support concerning social media activities were more likely to use different digital platforms and value more various functions of social media for external communication as compared with those lacking such support. At the individual level, communications directors’ perceived ease of social media use and time in their current position significantly influenced their emphasis on different functions of social media. This research fills a gap in the literature by analyzing both organizational characteristics and individual communications director’s attributes in assessing nonprofits’ social media use.

Can country-level changes in internet use, social media use and online gaming explain the decline in drinking among adolescents?: A multilevel analysis of ESPAD data from 2003 to 2019.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geir Scott Brunborg ◽  
Elin Kristin Bye ◽  
Torleif Halkjelsvik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Adolescent Drinking ◽  
Country Level

Objectives: The decline in adolescent drinking in the past two decades has coincided with substantial changes in the use of digital media. This suggests that certain types of digital media use may have replaced drinking among adolescents. We hypothesized negative associations between adolescent drinking and country-level changes in frequency of internet use and the more specific activities social media use and online gaming.Design: Multilevel analysis of repeated cross-sectional school surveys. Setting: Europe.Participants: The data comprised five waves of data from the European School Survey Project for Alcohol and Drugs (ESPAD) from 2003 – 2019. The survey included responses from 537,142 adolescents aged 15-16 from a total of 51 countries/geographical areas. Analysis: Past 30 days’ binge drinking and drinking frequency were regressed on general internet use, social media use and online gaming, according to three different levels of analysis (countries, within-country changes, individuals). Sensitivity analyses adjusted for family characteristics and other leisure activities. Results. We found evidence against the hypothesized negative associations between changes in population level drinking and population level internet use and online gaming. Results for social media were inconclusive. At the individual level, all digital media use variables were positively associated with drinking.Conclusions: It is unlikely that country-level increases in internet use and online gaming have replaced drinking among adolescents. The potential role of social media requires further studies. The results underline the important difference between population-level and individual-level effects in explaining changes in adolescent drinking patterns.

scholarly journals Development and validation of a parental social media mediation scale across child and parent samples

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 677-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Ho ◽  
May O. Lwin ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Minyi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Initial Scale ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Development And Validation

Purpose Social media use carries both opportunities and risks for children and adolescents. In order to reduce the negative impacts of social media on youth, the authors focus our efforts on parental mediation of social media. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to enhance the conceptualization and operationalization of parental mediation of social media. Design/methodology/approach First, the authors conducted focus groups with both children and parents in Singapore to categorize parental mediation strategies for social media and develop an initial scale of these strategies. Then, a survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,424 child participants and 1,206 parent participants in Singapore to develop and test the scale. Findings The focus group results identified four conceptually distinct parental mediation strategies for social media, labeled as active mediation, restrictive mediation, authoritarian surveillance, and non-intrusive inspection, and were used to develop an initial scale of these strategies. Based on the data from survey questionnaires, the authors investigated both inter-item and item-total correlations and performed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which developed and validated the scale of parental mediation of social media. Originality/value First, this research explained what parents do to manage children’s social media use and identified four conceptually distinct parental mediation strategies of social media, making a significant contribution to the parental mediation theory. Additionally, the research developed the first theory-derived, successively validated and reliable scale in parental mediation of social media.

scholarly journals Problematic social media use and depressive symptoms among U.S. young adults: A nationally-representative study

2017 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 150-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Shensa ◽  
César G. Escobar-Viera ◽  
Jaime E. Sidani ◽  
Nicholas D. Bowman ◽  
Michael P. Marshal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Representative Study ◽  
Problematic Social Media Use ◽  
Nationally Representative

Measuring Twitter Use: Validating Survey-Based Measures

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931989624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Henderson ◽  
Ke Jiang ◽  
Martin Johnson ◽  
Lance Porter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Observed Behavior

An important challenge for research on social media use is to relate users’ activity on these platforms to user characteristics such as demographics. Surveys allow researchers to measure these characteristics but may be subject to measurement error in self-reported social media use. We compare survey responses to observed behavior in order to assess the validity of self-reported frequency of posting to Twitter, retweeting content, sharing photos, sharing videos, and sending direct messages. Additionally, we examine correlations between self-reported and observed behavior across a range of time frames, from 1 month to 114 months before the survey. We find variation in the quality of self-reports across types of Twitter activity. We also find that self-reports about posting and retweeting tend to reflect recent activity, while self-reports about other activities tend to reflect behavior over a longer span. Furthermore, we find that two characteristics of experience with the platform—the length of time that a person has been active on Twitter and how much their activity on the platform changes over time—predict individual-level discrepancies between survey response and observed behavior, but these discrepancies cancel out when averaged across individuals. Nevertheless, other sources of bias remain. Taken together, our results indicate that while surveys are quite useful for collecting characteristics of social media users, relying on self-reported social media behavior distorts inferential results from what is found when relying on observed social media behavior.

Is Social Media Use Socially Enhancing or Compensating?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-288
Author(s):  
Rahul Gadekar ◽  
Peng Hwa Ang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Manova Analysis ◽  
Compensation Hypothesis

Who benefits more from the use of social media—those who are already socialable and have a wide network of friends or those who do not and so seek to make up for their deficiency by going online? The social enhancement hypothesis says that extroverts benefit more through being able to enlarge their network of friends online more than introverts. The social compensation hypothesis, on the other hand, argues that social media use benefits introverts more; shy users who avoid face-to-face communication can communicate freely online. MANOVA analysis of the survey of 1,392 college students in a western state of India who are Facebook users found evidence predominantly for the social enhancement hypothesis.

Internet addiction and impulsivity among university students

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S397-S397 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.Ö. Ünsalver ◽  
H. Aktepe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionThe progress in technology adds to the new ways of communication between people. In our age, online communication has taken the place of face to face communication. People express themselves, become friends and in a way become who they are through the tools of social media. Many biological and psychological factors may affect the choice of people for communicating through social media.ObjectiveMain objective of this research is to measure the frequency of Internet addiction and it's relationship to social media use and impulsivity.MethodsThe population of the study is composed of 117 female (58.5%) and 83 male (41.5%) students between 18–25 years of age from Uskudar University. Barratt Impulsivity Scale and Internet Addiction Scale were used for data collection and measurement of variables.ResultsAmong the participants, 97.5% were found to go online everyday. Among the participants, 74.5% went online for social media use. Only 5% of the subjects fitted the criteria for Internet addiction. Thirty-six percent had limited symptoms for Internet addiction. Internet addiction symptoms and impulsivity were positively related. The tool for Internet access did not affect Internet addiction. Those who used a smart phone went online for social media use more commonly than those who used a computer.ConclusionIt has been debated that social media and the increase in smart phone use may be affecting young people and increase internet addiction rates, however we have found that impulsivity is an important factor for internet addiction as in other types of addiction.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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