Research
Question:
What are the
known
psychological
effects of
using social
media
Increased
influence of
peer
pressure and
comparison
of our lives
to others
http://degreed.com/bl
og/top-10-wayssocial-media-affectsmental-health/
Rise of
narcissism
http://www.psychalive.org
/is-social-media-to-blamefor-the-rise-in-narcissism/
10 ways social media
affects our health
Recent studies of
undergraduates across the
country have shown that
“students who were more
involved with Facebook
were more likely to think
other people’s lives were
happier and better.” These
heavy Facebook users were
also more likely to
negatively compare
themselves to others and feel
worse about themselves.
http://www.voanews.com/cont
ent/study-heavy-facebookusers-less-happy138867149/163319.html
(Utah valley university)
In 2012 a team of
researchers in the UK
surveyed users, 53%
of whom said social
media had changed
their behavior; 51%
said it was negative
behavior because of
decline in confidence
they felt due to unfair
comparisons to
others.
Increased
motivation to
social media
shame
Cyber
bullying
http://files.eric.ed.gov/
fulltext/EJ795861.pdf
Online Communication and
Adolescent
Relationships
An organization that
aims for internet
safety, called Enough
is Enough, conducted
a survey that found
95% of teenagers
who use social media
have witnessed
cyberbullying, and
33% have been
victims themselves.
http://ahnjune.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/11/0FinalAhn2011JASIST.pdf
The Effect of Social Network
Sites on Adolescents’ Social and
Academic Development: Current
Theories and Controversies
Early studies of college students
and Facebook find that peer
influence is related to safety
behaviors in SNS. Students
appear more likely to have a
private profile if their friends or
roommates also used privacy
settings (Lewis, Kaufman, &
Christakis, 2008).
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Adolescents who experienced
social exclusion reported greater
negative affect (for example,
lower self-esteem, shame, and
anger) than those who were
included.
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Cyberbullying illustrates how
traditional offline adolescent
issues are moving to the
electronic stage
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the generation born in the
1980s and 1990s, a
generation controversially
dubbed “Generation Me” by
Professor Jean M. Twenge
in 2007. In her most recent
work, The Narcissistic
Epidemic: Living in the
Age of Entitlement, Twenge
(with W. Keith Campbell)
explains: “In data from
37,000 college students,
narcissistic personality
traits rose just as fast as
obesity from the 1980s to
the present.”
Early studies in the field also
imply that characteristics such as
shyness, self-esteem, and
narcissism are related to behavior
in SNS (Barker, 2009; Buffardi
& Campbell, 2008; Zywica &
Danowski, 2008).
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