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The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
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Abstract The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such as TV use, self-esteem, and satisfaction with friends. We found that frequency of Internet use in general and use of SNS in particular is not substantially related subjective well-being. The explanatory power of general Internet use or SNS use to predict between-person differences or within-person change in subjective well-being is close to zero. TV use, a potentially confounding variable, is negatively related to satisfaction with life, but it does not affect depressive symptomatology. However, this effect is too small to be of practical relevance.
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- Authors
- Schemer, C., Masur, P. K., Geiß, S., Müller, P., & Schäfer, S.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- University of Mannheim (DE)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Schemer, Christian
- Venue
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020-12-12
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-21
- ISSN
- 1083-6101 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3112674396
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 25.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- MADOC (University of Mannheim) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- internet use, social networking sites, subjective well-being, adolescents, depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, television viewing, self-esteem, between-person effects, within-person change
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