Social media use and happiness in adults with autism spectrum disorder
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Social media (SM) use by adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is not well understood. Co-occurring mental health concerns, such as depression, are common for adults with ASD. The current investigation explored the relationship between SM use and happiness in a population of adults with self-disclosed ASD. Of the 84 percent of the sample who used SM, those who used Facebook, the most popular site, were happier than those who did not. The same relationship did not exist for the second most popular site, Twitter. Happiness and SM use showed a quadratic relationship: Happiness and SM use increased together until they reached a point where happiness fell off. SM use by adults with ASD, specifically Facebook use in moderation, may enhance well-being and may be a protective factor against secondary mental health concerns common in this population.
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Moderate Facebook use is correlated with increased happiness in adults with ASD.
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- Authors
- Ward, D. M., Dill-Shackleford, K. E., & Mazurek, M. O.
- Affiliations
- Fielding Graduate University (US)
- School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California.
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ward, Deborah M.
- Venue
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 205-209
- ISSN
- 2152-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 2152-2723
- OpenAlex
- W2792880735
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5
- FWCI
- 12.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- social media use, autism spectrum disorder, happiness, well-being, Facebook, Twitter, depression, autistic adults, quadratic relationship, moderation, mental health
- MeSH terms
- Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adult, Happiness, Humans, Mental Health, Cohort Studies, Social Media
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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