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Adolescents' Intense and Problematic Social Media Use and Their Well-Being in 29 Countries
M. Boer, RJJM. van den Eijnden, M. Boniel-Nissim, SL. Wong, JC. Inchley, P. Badura, WM. Craig, I. Gobina, D. Kleszczewska, HJ. Klanšček, GWJM. Stevens
Language English Country United States
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Grant support
MC_PC_17217
Medical Research Council - United Kingdom
SPHSU12
Chief Scientist Office - United Kingdom
MC_UU_12017/12
Medical Research Council - United Kingdom
- MeSH
- Bayes Theorem MeSH
- Adolescent Behavior * MeSH
- Child MeSH
- Mental Health statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Internet MeSH
- Quality of Life MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Behavior, Addictive * MeSH
- Personal Satisfaction * MeSH
- Stress, Psychological MeSH
- Social Media statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Cross-Cultural Comparison MeSH
- Health Behavior * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Child MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Female MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
PURPOSE: This study examined (1) whether intense and problematic social media use (SMU) were independently associated with adolescent well-being; (2) whether these associations varied by the country-level prevalence of intense and problematic SMU; and (3) whether differences in the country-level prevalence of intense and problematic SMU were related to differences in mobile Internet access. METHODS: Individual-level data came from 154,981 adolescents (meanage = 13.5) from 29 countries that participated in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. Intense SMU was measured by the time spent on social media, whereas problematic SMU was defined by symptoms of addiction to social media. Mental (life satisfaction and psychological complaints), school (school satisfaction and perceived school pressure), and social (family support and friend support) well-being were assessed. Country-level data came from aggregated individual-level data and data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Internet access. RESULTS: Two-level regression analyses indicated that in countries with a lower prevalence of intense SMU, intense users reported lower levels of life satisfaction and family support and more psychological complaints than nonintense users. In contrast, in countries with a higher prevalence of intense SMU, intense users reported higher levels of family support and life satisfaction than nonintense users, and similar levels of psychological complaints. In all countries, intense users reported more friend support than nonintense users. The findings regarding problematic SMU were more consistent: In all countries, problematic users reported lower well-being on all domains than nonproblematic users. Observed differences in country-level prevalence rates of intense and problematic SMU could not be explained by mobile Internet access. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents reporting problematic SMU are particularly at risk of lower well-being. In many countries, intense SMU may be a normative adolescent behavior that contributes positively to specific domains of their well-being.
Center for Study and Development of Health National Institute of Public Health Ljubljana Slovenia
Centre for Health Promotion Public Health Agency of Canada Ottawa Canada
Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Department of Psychology Queen's University Kingston Canada
Faculty of Physical Culture Palacký University Olomouc Czech Republic
Institute of Mother and Child Foundation Warsaw Poland
MRC CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit University of Glasgow Glasgow Scotland
School of Medicine University of St Andrews St Andrews Scotland
School of Social Sciences and Humanities Kinneret Academic College Sea of Galilee Israel
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