The Effect of Social Media on Stress among Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: Taking into Account Fatalism and Social Media Exhaustion
| Autor: | Shaohai Jiang, Annabel Ngien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject 050801 communication & media studies Context (language use) Health Promotion Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0508 media and communications Quality of life (healthcare) Moderated mediation medicine Humans Social media Pandemics media_common 030505 public health Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies) Communication Public health 05 social sciences Fatalism COVID-19 Mental health Quality of Life 0305 other medical science Psychology Social Media Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Health Communication. 37:1337-1344 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7027 1041-0236 |
| Popis: | Social media has been widely used as an important source of health information, particularly during public health crises. However, findings regarding social media's impact on young adults' mental health are mixed. There is a need to identify social mechanisms underlying the effect of social media on mental health outcomes. Our study breaks new ground by proposing and testing a moderated mediation pathway from social media use to stress in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a two-wave online panel survey in the context of China. With a general basis of the Street's three-stage model, our results indicated that social media failed to directly affect young adults' stress. Instead, fatalism completely mediated this relationship. Also, one's perceived social media exhaustion negatively moderated this mediation pathway. The findings have significant theoretical and practical implications for the use of social media to promote health, well-being, and quality of life among young people during public health crises. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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