Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability

被引:56
作者
Orben, Amy [1 ]
Meier, Adrian [2 ]
Dalgleish, Tim [1 ]
Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Med Res Council, Cognit & Brain Sci Unit, Cambridge, England
[2] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Sch Business Econ & Soc, Nurnberg, Germany
[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, England
[4] UCL, Inst Cognit Neurosci, London, England
来源
NATURE REVIEWS PSYCHOLOGY | 2024年 / 3卷 / 06期
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
IDENTITY SHIFT; SELF-CONCEPT; FACEBOOK USE; RELATIONAL CLOSENESS; LONGITUDINAL CHANGES; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS; NETWORKING SITES; STRESS-RESPONSE; PEER REJECTION; TECHNOLOGY USE;
D O I
10.1038/s44159-024-00307-y
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Research linking social media use and adolescent mental health has produced mixed and inconsistent findings and little translational evidence, despite pressure to deliver concrete recommendations for families, schools and policymakers. At the same time, it is widely recognized that developmental changes in behaviour, cognition and neurobiology predispose adolescents to developing socio-emotional disorders. In this Review, we argue that such developmental changes would be a fruitful focus for social media research. Specifically, we review mechanisms by which social media could amplify the developmental changes that increase adolescents' mental health vulnerability. These mechanisms include changes to behaviour, such as sharing risky content and self-presentation, and changes to cognition, such as modifications in self-concept, social comparison, responsiveness to social feedback and experiences of social exclusion. We also consider neurobiological mechanisms that heighten stress sensitivity and modify reward processing. By focusing on mechanisms by which social media might interact with developmental changes to increase mental health risks, our Review equips researchers with a toolkit of key digital affordances that enables theorizing and studying technology effects despite an ever-changing social media landscape. Declines in adolescent mental health over the past decade have been attributed to social media, but the empirical evidence is mixed. In this Review, Orben et al. describe the mechanisms by which social media could amplify the developmental changes that increase adolescents' mental health vulnerability.
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页码:407 / 423
页数:17
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