Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

A Systematic Review: The Association Between Social Media Use, Social Media Addiction, and Depression in Adolescents

Authors
Letong Yang1, *, , Jingqiao Yuan2,
1Psychology department, University of Washington, Seattle, 98105, U.S.A.
2Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, CHINA.

These authors contributed equally.

*Corresponding author. Email: letong@uw.edu
Corresponding Author
Letong Yang
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.018How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Social media; social media use; social media addiction; depression; internet addiction; Facebook addiction; young adults; adolescents
Abstract

With the development of technology, social media has become the main way for people to communicate with others and entertain themselves. At the same time, depression is one of the most common mental disorders. About 4.3% of people in the world are diagnosed with depression. Many researchers pay attention to the relationship between social media and depression. They did surveys to measure depression and the level of social media addiction or use and tested the correlation between them. Surveys are only able to get a correlation but not accurate causation, and most related researches used the same method. Because of simply using surveys during research, mechanisms between social media use, social media addiction, and depression need further exploration. Our review aims at finding the universal result of various previous researches and presenting suggestions on method selection for later researches. We reviewed 15 articles and offered a summary of previous methods and results. Our review found that the methods used are limited, and it is necessary to find new approaches to get a more specific relationship. Controversial results suggested that further and more careful research are needed. A universally used scale for depression and social media use or addiction would be helpful for investigating related fields. They should also focus on the mechanism but not only the correlation between some variables.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.018How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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