TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Social media use is (weakly) related to psychological distress
JO  - Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
A1  - Stronge, Samantha
A1  - Mok, Tara
A1  - Ejova, Anastasia
A1  - Lee, Carol
A1  - Zubielevitch, Elena
A1  - Yogeeswaran, Kumar
A1  - Hawi, Diala
A1  - Osborne, Danny
A1  - Bulbulia, Joseph
A1  - Sibley, Chris G.
SP  - 604
EP  - 609
VL  - 22
IS  - 9
N2  - Although the growing prevalence of social media usage raises concerns about its potentially negative impact on mental health and distress, research has found mixed results. This study resolves these inconsistencies by examining the association between hours of time spent on social media use and psychological distress in a sample of New Zealand adults (<i>N</i> = 19,075). After adjusting for demographics and time spent on various other activities (e.g., exercise, sleep, and housework), social media use correlated positively with psychological distress. Although social media use had one of the largest per-hour unit associations with psychological distress compared with time spent engaging in other habitual activities, the association was very weak. Thus, only excessive amounts of social media usage would result in practical changes in distress. These findings provide robust data from a large-scale national probability sample of adults, demonstrating that social media use is typically not a serious risk factor for psychological distress.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2152-2715
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0176
ID  - ref1
ER  -