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Literature Review: The Impact of Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health

Jordan Ogden

American Military University

April 7, 2024

Introduction

Social media, which is used by teenagers a lot, has led to the rise of massive alarm about the consequences on their mental health. Thus, the following paragraph constitutes a context for scrutinizing the connections between social networking site utilization and students' mental health. It is now more important than ever to shed light on what the effects of digital access turn into as people adapt to social media being a part of their everyday lives. In this review, I will gather knowledge from new scientific journal publications to illuminate the multidimensional aspect of this link, pinpointing any current research lacunas and opening a door for a deeper investigation. This review aims to provide insights that could be used when formulating positive mental well-being strategies during the digital era. This review does so by carefully evaluating how social media use is related to adolescents' mental health.

Literature Review

Impact of social media use on adolescent mental health.

Valkenburg and colleagues scrutinized an umbrella review of the impact of social media on adolescent mental health (2022). The authors present a detailed talk on the full picture of this connection by integrating research findings and other sources. These studies cover the various influences of social network profiles on teens' psychological well-being, indicating that the link can be both good and bad. This analysis is a reference tool for learning the complexities in which social media usage affects teenage mental health and can be utilized to guide paradigm shifts and intervention points of future researchers. Interventions focusing on a teen's mental health area are continuously becoming more critical.

Relationship between smartphones, social media use, and youth mental health.

In his work, Abuela-juiced, Naylor, and Piganiello, the smartphone, social media use, and youth mental health reviewed their relationship. Their research focuses on the role of IT overuse and social networks in teenagers' psychological and mental health development. The impacts the internet and online virtual environments have on the mental well-being of the users, especially concerning conditions like anxiety and depression, is a topic of discussion. They point towards these very problems to emphasize the need to work out the contribution of social networking sites and phone technology within the context of teenage mental well-being. They are implying that researchers' observation is an essential input into the stream of ideas used to set objectives of social operations of digital habit plus youth mental health in today's more interconnected age.

Impact of social media use on mental health and well-being among adolescents.

The research by Schønning, Hjetland, Aarø, and Skogen on the connection between social media use and mental health and well-being among adolescents is thoroughly reviewed in their scoping review. The article authors conduct an in-depth reading through the entirety of current literature related to the issue of adolescent psychological well-being that is affected by social media and outline the main themes and areas where more research is needed. Such a bond draws a picture of subtle nuances in studying causal patterns and may act as a possible line of further investigations. This review helps synthesize today's studies, indicating multidimensional dynamics in social media usage and adolescent mental health. This informs the design of interventions and strategies to target positive outcomes.

Association between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms.

The research of Ivie, Pettitt, Moses, and Allen (2020) was conducted in the field of meta-analysis to determine the connection between depressive symptoms and adolescent social media usage. The piece engages in a comprehensive literature review that involves collecting data from numerous research works to draw conclusions regarding the association in question. The meta-analysis showed a significant coefficient, which means that increasing social media use among adolescents relates to higher levels of depressive symptoms. This meta-analysis takes an evidence-based approach using a thorough exploration of the existing studies, which makes a significant contribution to the current discussion on the influence of social media on adolescents' mental health, thus pointing out the importance of implementing effective measures to help teenagers to develop an excellent physical and psychological condition.

The connection between social media use and mental health.

A systemic review carried out by Karim, Oyewande, Abdalla, Ehsanullah, and Khan (2020) was conducted to apprehend the association between social media usage and mental health. They designed the study, illustrating the relationship between these variables by taking extant research and marking it as the most complete overview. After an exact scraping of the existing studies by the authors, diverse channels that connect social media use and mental health, like cyberbullying social comparison, and sleep disturbances, stood out. The integrated review is very clear about the interplay between social media use and mental well-being, emphasizing the importance of further research that seeks appropriate interventions. Such interventions should help minimize and deal with adverse social media effects to improve the users' psychological well-being.

The interplay between social media use, sleep quality, and mental health in youth.

Alonzo, Hussain, Stranges, and Anderson (2021) focused on the analytic seeing in a systematic review, the crossover between the use of social media, the quality of sleep, and the mental health of the youth. The authors achieved this analysis through a review and in-depth review of the existing literature. They emphasized the complexities surrounding the factors of the process. An exciting finding revealed was bidirectional associations, wherein there is the possibility that excessive social media use can be associated with poor sleep quality, which in turn affects many aspects of the emotional well-being of the youth. The review of these mechanics helps to bring to the forefront that social media influences may be better understood when several input areas are considered. This review suggests that holistic frameworks should be built so that the positive mental health status of the young can also be promoted and the negative impact of the internet on media use by digital youth is minimized.

Integration and Alignment with Research Study Proposal

The combined results of segments from the selected academic literature reveal a congruency with the proposed young people's mental health because of their social media use inquiry. By highlighting the multidimensional character of this relationship, where all aspects are covered: depressive symptoms, self-esteem, cyberbullying, cognitive development, sleep quality, and a general sense of well-being, the paper can form a complete picture of all elements involved. The articles raise the importance of various agents of social media in impacting mental health, such as social comparison, cyberbullying, and influenced sleep. They point to the requirement for a nuanced understanding of such a relationship, acknowledging that the moderating factors cannot be ignored and that a bidirectional approach should be taken. Combining ideas from the mentioned research articles will be helpful in the process of choosing variables, intervention strategies, and types of research designs, which, as a consequence, will make the study more inclusive regarding the issue of how media on social channels affect the level of adolescent's mental health and in the future informs the ways to design targeted interventions and to produce positive mental health outcomes in this population.

References

Abi-Jaoude, E., Naylor, K. T., & Pignatiello, A. (2020). Smartphones, social media use and youth mental health. Cmaj, 192(6), E136-E141.

Alonzo, R., Hussain, J., Stranges, S., & Anderson, K. K. (2021). Interplay between social media use, sleep quality, and mental health in youth: A systematic review. Sleep medicine reviews, 56, 101414.

Ivie, E. J., Pettitt, A., Moses, L. J., & Allen, N. B. (2020). A meta-analysis of the association between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms. Journal of affective disorders, 275, 165-174.

Karim, F., Oyewande, A. A., Abdalla, L. F., Ehsanullah, R. C., & Khan, S. (2020). Social media use and its connection to mental health: a systematic review. Cureus, 12(6).

Schønning, V., Hjetland, G. J., Aarø, L. E., & Skogen, J. C. (2020). Social media use and mental health and well-being among adolescents–a scoping review. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 542107.

Valkenburg, P. M., Meier, A., & Beyens, I. (2022). Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence. Current opinion in psychology, 44, 58-68.