Impacts of the use of social network sites on users psychological well-being: A systematic review
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As Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly becoming part of people's everyday lives, the implications of their use need to be investigated and understood. We conducted a systematic literature review to lay the groundwork for understanding the relationship between SNS use and users' psychological well‐being and for devising strategies for taking advantage of this relationship. The review included articles published between 2003 and 2016, extracted from major academic databases. Findings revealed that the use of SNSs is both positively and negatively related to users' psychological well‐being. We discuss the factors that moderate this relationship and their implications on users' psychological well‐being. Many of the studies we reviewed lacked a sound theoretical justification for their findings and most involved young and healthy students, leaving other cohorts of SNS users neglected. The paper concludes with the presentation of a platform for future investigation.
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Most current understanding of the interaction between social media use and psychosocial outcomes comes from research in younger people.
“Most of our current understanding of the interaction between social media use and psychosocial outcomes comes from research in younger people who make up the largest cohort of active social media users around the world (Erfani & Abedin, 2018).”
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The Demographics section reports that most reviewed studies sampled students, and the section on broadening recruitment says studies of SNS use and psychological well-being have largely relied on students and adolescents. This supports the claim that understanding is drawn mainly from research in younger people. The paper does not establish the citing sentence’s additional assertion that younger people are the largest cohort of active social media users worldwide. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Erfani, S. S., & Abedin, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Erfani, Seyedezahra Shadi
- Abedin, Babak
- ORCID
- Abedin, Babak
- Venue
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-02-23
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 900-912
- ISSN
- 2330-1635 (ISSN-L)
- 2330-1643
- OpenAlex
- W2792215598
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 10
- FWCI
- 3.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- social network sites, psychological well-being, social media use, moderators, positive and negative effects of social media, young adults, students, digital well-being
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