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Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing

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Satici, Seydi Ahmet, Gocet Tekin, Emine, Deniz, M. Engin, Satici, Begum·2023·Applied Research in Quality of Life
DOI 10.1007/s11482-022-10110-7PMC PMC9580444
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Doomscrolling is a fairly new concept in mental health research which has attracted significant attention in recent years. This paper consists of three separate studies examining doomscrolling. In Study I (N = 378), both 15-item and 4-item forms of Doomscrolling Scale (DS) were confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Item Response Analysis demonstrated that all items had strong discriminative power. Different reliability coefficients supported the high reliability of DS. In Study II (N = 419), both correlation and network analysis indicated that doomscrolling was significantly associated with big five personality traits, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and some features of social media usage. In Study III (N = 460), the relationship of doomscrolling with psychological distress and wellbeing indicators -life satisfaction, mental well-being and harmony in life- were investigated. Structural equation modeling indicated that the relationship between doomscrolling and wellbeing indicators were mediated by psychological distress. This comprehensive and pioneering study on doomscrolling has highlighted the individual and social impacts of doomscrolling.

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  • Women tend to engage in more social media use, including doomscrolling, as a coping mechanism for stress, which can exacerbate symptoms of anxiety and depression.

    “Women also tend to engage in more social media use, including doomscrolling, as a coping mechanism for stress, which can exacerbate symptoms of anxiety and depression [198].”

    From Impact of Media-Induced Uncertainty on Mental Health: Narrative-Based Perspective. (2025) · cites this paper as [198]

    The Study II Results (page not available) link doomscrolling with more daily social media use but report no significant association between doomscrolling and gender. The Discussion links doomscrolling with psychological distress, and the Introduction reports research associating social media use with anxiety and depression. The paper does not establish that women use social media or doomscroll to cope with stress, or that this coping mechanism worsens their symptoms. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Nguyen, N. (2020, June 7). Doomscrolling: Why we just can’t look away. Wall Street Journal.
  2. Turkum, A. S., Satici, S. A., Yilmaz, M. F., & Kayis, A. R. (2016). Turkish version of 10-Item Big Five Inventory’s psychometric properties. Paper presented at the X. European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Authors
Satici, S. A., Gocet Tekin, E., Deniz, M. E., & Satici, B.
Affiliations
Yıldız Technical University (TR)
ORCID
Venue
Applied Research in Quality of Life
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-10-19
Volume
18
Issue
2
Pages
833-847
ISSN
  • 1871-2576 (ISSN-L)
  • 1871-2584
DOI
10.1007/s11482-022-10110-7
PMC
PMC9580444
OpenAlex
W4306784088
Cited by
131
References
21
Citations by year
2026: 54 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 7
FWCI
27.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Applied Research in Quality of Life (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Sakarya Üniversitesi Kurumsal Açık Akademik Arşivi (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
Keywords
doomscrolling, scale validation, Big Five personality traits, social media addiction, fear of missing out, social media use, psychological distress, well-being, life satisfaction, psychological well-being, mediation

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