Impact of Social Media on Mental Health: A Literature Review

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Woods, H. C., & Scott, H. (2016). # Sleepyteens: social media use in adolescence
is associated with poor sleep quality, anxiety, depression and low self-
esteem. Journal of Adolescence, 51, 41-49.
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/120206/7/120206.pdf
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The study evaluates the health related issues caused due to social media use by
adolescents. It proceeds through the measurement of social media on the basis
of time and also the calculation of the amount of emotional attachment in the
social media of the adolescents under study. According to the study, those
adolescents who used social media more at night and all over the day, they are
more prone to suffer from the inadequate sleep and extreme level of anxiety.
Higher the emotional attachment in social sites, higher the depression level. It
has successfully measured the anxiety, depression, poor sleep quality and other
attributes influenced by social media with the outcome of above 5 score of
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index for the poor sleepers (35%) having longer
engagement in the social media. Besides, 47% and 21% of the participants have
been classified as anxious and depressed. The journal has concluded the
relationship of social media and mental disorders through analysis of statistical
measurements correlation coefficients and p-values (Woods & Scott, 2016).
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Andreassen, C. S., Billieux, J., Griffiths, M. D., Kuss, D. J., Demetrovics, Z.,
Mazzoni, E., & Pallesen, S. (2016). The relationship between addictive
use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric
disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study. Psychology of Addictive
Behaviors, 30(2), 252.
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http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27290/7/27290_Kuss.pdf
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This study of University of Bergen demonstrates the risk factors which are the
consequences of the addiction towards social media, online activities, and video
gaming. The risk is higher for those who are single as they are more engaged in
online activities. These addictions lead to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The empirical
investigation has revealed that OCD symptoms are relatable with the disorder
symptoms that happen for excessive addiction in social media and it results
depressive and anxious attitude of men and women. The regression analysis of a
sample of 23,533 respondents shows that there is high positive correlation lies
among the measures of ADHD, OCD, and anxiety. The study also analyses the
effect of addiction based on age, gender, education level, and marital status.
There is positive association between video gaming and single people, primary
and high school children, depression, OCD, and ADHD. Again, the negative
association can be seen for females, students pursuing master’s degree, and
anxiety (Andreassen et al., 2016).
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Elhai, J. D., Levine, J. C., Dvorak, R. D., & Hall, B. J. (2017). Non-social features of
smartphone use are most related to depression, anxiety and problematic
smartphone use. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 75-82.
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https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56916e4805f8e207077fb3ed/t/
5851b2bb2994ca7a6254ba75/1481749179695/ElhaiLevineDvorakHall2017.pdf
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The purpose of this article is to enlighten the problematic use of smartphone that
causes the depression and other mental disorders. The authors have proceeded the
study with the investigation of the two types of smartphone usage namely, process use
and social use. The social use involves involvement in social media and chatting.
Besides, the process use defines the non-social uses like entertainment, new-reading,
and relaxation. The result has shown that process use is more responsible for
problematic smartphone use and it is accountable for increased level of anxiety and
depression. Moreover, the symptoms of depression have negative association with the
more social smartphone use. The measurements of Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS)
have been taken into account here having 33 items on 6-point Likert scale. The change
of the psychopathology reveals that depression is inversely proportional to the
problematic use of smartphone. This study has used the measurement of SAS and also
discussed about the variation of the smartphone usage and their effects (Elhai et al.,
2017).
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Demirci, K., Akgönül, M., & Akpinar, A. (2015). Relationship of smartphone use
severity with sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in university
students. Journal of behavioral addictions, 4(2), 85-92.
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https://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/2006.4.2015.010
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This journal article aims to highlight the predominance of smartphone use with
anxiety and depression among university students. The study has also concluded
that the addiction score is higher for female students than male students. The
outcome has been evaluated from the study of the smartphone behaviors of
319 participants and dividing them into three groups namely, smartphone non-
user group, low smartphone use group, and high smartphone use group. Then
the scores of daytime dysfunction, depression and anxiety have been analysed
using the Beck Depression Inventory, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and Beck
Anxiety Inventory. The scores were higher for the high smartphone use group.
The study offers a useful contribution towards the topic of interest by providing
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