Should I post? The relationships among social media use, emotion recognition, and mental health.
| Autor: | Scarpulla E; Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States., Stosic MD; Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States., Weaver AE; Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States., Ruben MA; Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States.; Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2023 May 23; Vol. 14, pp. 1161300. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 23 (Print Publication: 2023). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1161300 |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: While increased time spent on social media can be negatively related to one's overall mental health, social media research often fails to account for what behaviors users are actually engaging in while they are online. The present research helps to address this gap by measuring participants' active and passive social media behavioral styles and investigates whether and how these two social media behavioral styles are related to depression, anxiety, and stress, and the mediating role of emotion recognition ability in this relationship. Methods: A pre-study ( N = 128) tested whether various social media behaviors reliably grouped into active and passive behavioral styles, and a main study ( N = 139) tested the relationships between social media use style, emotion recognition, and mental health. Results: While we did not find evidence of a mediating relationship between these variables, results supported that more active social media use was related to more severe anxiety and stress as well as poorer emotion recognition skill, while passive social media use was unrelated to these outcomes. Discussion: These findings highlight that, beyond objective time spent on social media, future research must consider how users are spending their time online. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Scarpulla, Stosic, Weaver and Ruben.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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