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Depressed adolescents’ positive and negative use of social media.
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This qualitative study examined descriptions of social media use among 23 adolescents (18 female, 5 male) who were diagnosed with depression to explore how social media use may influence and be influenced by psychological distress. Adolescents described both positive and negative use of social media. Positive use included searching for positive content (i.e. for entertainment, humor, content creation) or for social connection. Negative use included sharing risky behaviors, cyberbullying, and for making self‐denigrating comparisons with others. Adolescents described three types of use in further detail including “oversharing” (sharing updates at a high frequency or too much personal information), “stressed posting” (sharing negative updates with a social network), and encountering “triggering posts.” In the context of treatment, these adolescents shifted their social media use patterns from what they perceived as negative to more positive use. Implications for clinicians counseling depressed adolescents on social media use are discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Radovic, A., Gmelin, T., Stein, B. D., & Miller, E.
- Affiliations
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Oakland Medical Building, 3420 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 United States
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Adolescence
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-12-18
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-15
- ISSN
- 0140-1971 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9254
- PMC
- PMC5485251
- OpenAlex
- W2566587171
- Semantic Scholar
- 1c8514a1fc81106e03f07bf026329f0f171e89e9
- Cited by
- 350
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 58.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Adolescence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (K12HS022989, T32 HS019486‐01)
- Healthcare Research and Quality (K12HS022989, T32 HS019486-01)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Keywords
- adolescent depression, social media use, cyberbullying, self-comparison, oversharing, psychological distress, social connectedness, content creation, depression treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Depression, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Risk-Taking, Stress, Psychological, Qualitative Research, Bullying, Social Media
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