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Social Media Effects on Mental Health

NCT04967846 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 608

Last updated 2022-05-10

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Summary

In the last decade, research on social media and mental health has produced mixed results. Overall, the current findings suggest that the negative effects on mental health are exacerbated by longer and more frequent social media usage, whereas the positive effects are bolstered when social media is used to connect with other people.

With the largest number of global users, Facebook is the most frequently studied social media network. Over the past few years, the increasing concerns about the risks associated with Facebook have even translated to wider pop culture conversations, as exemplified by the 2020 documentary The Social Dilemma. In response, Facebook has rolled out a series of features supposed to mitigate these risks and encourage responsible social media usage. These features include activity trackers and reminders, unfollow and snooze buttons, and data sharing regulators. Currently, there is no research done to address whether (1) these features are used at all, and (2) whether they are successful in moderating the negative mental health consequences of Facebook usage.

This study seeks to address the gap in literature through a survey done on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).

Conditions

  • Mental Health Issue
  • Mental Health Wellness 1
  • Mental Health Wellness 2
  • Social Media Addiction
  • Internet Addiction

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale-NUS College

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tamara Barsova · Yale-NUS College

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-13
Primary Completion
2021-08-24
Completion
2021-09-19

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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