Annotated Bibliography: Psychology of Social Media and Teenagers

This annotated bibliography provides a detailed overview of the psychological effects of social media on teenagers. It includes three sources: an article by Charoensukmongkol (2018) examining the relationship between social media use, social comparison, and envy; an article by McHugh et al. (2018) investigating the link between online risk exposure, coping mechanisms, and post-traumatic stress disorder; and a book edited by Prado (2016) exploring how social media changes teenagers' thinking, expression, and attention. Each entry summarizes the source's key findings and arguments, offering valuable insights into the complex relationship between social media and adolescent mental health. This resource is designed to help students understand the current research and issues in this important field. The bibliography helps in understanding how social media can impact teenagers, including its effects on social comparison, mental health, and overall well-being.

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Article 1: “Charoensukmongkol, P. (2018). The Impact of Social Media on Social
Comparison and Envy in Teenagers: The Moderating Role of the Parent Comparing Children
and In-group Competition among Friends. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(1), 69-
79.”
This article Charoensukmongkol, (2018), had focused to discover the relationship
among intensity of social media use and the tendency of teenagers to involve in social envy
and comparison. The author had highlighted that teenagers are easily moulded by their
surrounding social environment and might exhibit negative consequences of using social
media due to their vulnerable mind. The result determined was serving the argument because
it exhibited that the teenagers have negative impact on them by using social media and they
easily engage in envy and social comparison as their parents compare them in peer-group
characterized by high in-group competition.
Article 2: “McHugh, B. C., Wisniewski, P., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. (2018). When
social media traumatizes teens: The roles of online risk exposure, coping, and post-traumatic
stress. Internet Research, 28(5), 1169-1188.”
This article McHugh et al., (2018), had focused on the destructive online risk practice
to determine the extent of social media risk experience with post- traumatic stress disorder.
The author highlighted that the teenagers can cope up with short term responses that serve to
diminish post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and arise due to online risk experience such
as cyberbullying, content exposure, sexual solicitations and information breaches. The result
was serving the favour of research that interpreted and confirmed that social media risk like
sexual solicitations, cyberbullying or content exposure is responsible for the symptoms of
PTSD in teenagers.

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Book: “Prado, C. G. (Ed.). (2016). Social Media and Your Brain: Web-based
Communication is Changing how We Think and Express Ourselves. ABC-CLIO.”
This book provided a detail context on the use of social media and internet used by
the teenagers. The author had highlighted certain change of habits in teenagers after social
media exposure like change in their way of thinking, way of expressing their individual
thought and their attitude. The book also highlighted on the negative effect of social media on
one’s self–control and attention. The relationship or association between the enhanced use of
social media and the decreasing attention control was also highlighted in this book with the
fact that if social media is really distracting an individual.

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References:
Charoensukmongkol, P. (2018). The Impact of Social Media on Social Comparison and Envy
in Teenagers: The Moderating Role of the Parent Comparing Children and In-group
Competition among Friends. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(1), 69-79.
McHugh, B. C., Wisniewski, P., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. (2018). When social media
traumatizes teens: The roles of online risk exposure, coping, and post-traumatic stress.
Internet Research, 28(5), 1169-1188.
Prado, C. G. (Ed.). (2016). Social Media and Your Brain: Web-based Communication is
Changing how We Think and Express Ourselves. ABC-CLIO