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Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing
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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 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].”
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“Doomscrolling Scale : The Doomscrolling Scale [29, 47] was used to assess doomscrolling.”
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- Authors
- Satici, S. A., Gocet Tekin, E., Deniz, M. E., & Satici, B.
- Affiliations
- Yıldız Technical University (TR)
- Venue
- Applied Research in Quality of Life
- Published
- 2022-10-19
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 833-847
- ISSN
- 1871-2576 (ISSN-L)
- 1871-2584
- 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
- bronze
- doi.org
- 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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