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Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emerging adults' affective wellbeing
Griffioen,N. Scholten,H. Lichtwarck-Aschoff,A. Maciejewski,D. Granic,I.
Griffioen,N.
Scholten,H.
Lichtwarck-Aschoff,A.
Maciejewski,D.
Granic,I.
Abstract
Group-level studies of the association between social media use and wellbeing in emerging adults have so far yielded mixed and inconsistent results. As a result, recent research has shifted focus towards assessing potential heterogeneity in social media use relationships in youth. In this preregistered study, we aimed to take previous efforts further by incorporating both subjective and objective data, and by including more specific measures of social media use such as how active emerging adults were on social media, and with whom they interacted. While data resolution issues interfered with some of our analyses, our findings suggest that there is heterogeneity in some but not all of the relationships between social media use and emerging adults' affective wellbeing.
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Funding Information: This study has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, grant number 683262 to Isabela Granic. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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2023
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Affective wellbeing, Heterogeneity, Multilevel models, Positive affect, Social media, experience sampling
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Griffioen, N, Scholten, H, Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A, Maciejewski, D & Granic, I 2023, 'Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emerging adults' affective wellbeing', Current Psychology, vol. 42, pp. 30277-30292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04035-5