Effects of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being: A Mediated Model
| Autor: | Ahmed Muhammad Herzallah, Dragana Ostic, Esthela Galván Vela, Syed Mir Muhammad Shah, Sikandar Ali Qalati, Feng Liu, Belem Barbosa |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculdade de Economia |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
social isolation
Structural equation modeling smartphone addiction 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030502 gerontology medicine Psychology Social media social media use 030212 general & internal medicine Social isolation Empirical evidence Set (psychology) General Psychology Original Research bonding social capital BF1-990 bridging social capital Psychological well-being phubbing medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Explanatory power Social psychology Social capital |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Popis: | The growth in social media use has given rise to concerns about the impacts it may have on users' psychological well-being. This paper's main objective is to shed light on the effect of social media use on psychological well-being. Building on contributions from various fields in the literature, it provides a more comprehensive study of the phenomenon by considering a set of mediators, including social capital types (i.e., bonding social capital and bridging social capital), social isolation, and smartphone addiction. The paper includes a quantitative study of 940 social media users from Mexico, using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings point to an overall positive indirect impact of social media usage on psychological well-being, mainly due to the positive effect of bonding and bridging social capital. The empirical model's explanatory power is 45.1%. This paper provides empirical evidence and robust statistical analysis that demonstrates both positive and negative effects coexist, helping to reconcile the inconsistencies found so far in the literature. |
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