Loneliness in adolescents with different social media behavior
Introduction Loneliness is a critical issue of adolescents that has grown severe during the last decade. Social media use is often regarded as negative factor of loneliness experience in connection with escapism. At the same time social media is an important part of adolescents’ communication spher...
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Introduction
Loneliness is a critical issue of adolescents that has grown severe during the last decade. Social media use is often regarded as negative factor of loneliness experience in connection with escapism. At the same time social media is an important part of adolescents’ communication sphere. The present study aims to explore positive functions of social media which can help adolescents cope with loneliness.
Objectives
The present research studies features of loneliness representation in adolescents with different behavior in social media.
Methods
Multidimensional Inventory of Loneliness Experience; Cognitive Processing of Social Information in Internet Questionnaire; Method of unfinished sentences about loneliness and social media; Questionnaire about social media were used in the study with 44 adolescents, aged from 13 to 18.
Results
Adolescents have a higher level of loneliness (M = 29.6) than the results in 2013 (M = 17.7) show. Context analysis of unfinished sentences shows that 21% of adolescents have a various representation of loneliness, 71% perceive loneliness as negative. General feel of loneliness tends to show negative correlations with adequate perception of information in social media (k = - 0.317; p = 0.038). Negative attitude to loneliness is negatively correlated with interpretation adequacy of social media content (k=-0.568, p<0,001). Adolescents with low levels of holistic social media perceptions have higher levels of loneliness. Use of social media can reduce feelings of loneliness (p = 0.002).
Conclusions
Social media expand adolescents’ representation of loneliness. Productive use of social media can help adolescent cope with loneliness.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-eeba37e773b54666910f244544a4fb132023-11-17T05:09:19ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S438S43910.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1114Loneliness in adolescents with different social media behaviorE. Zakirova0N. Poskrebysheva1Moscow Lomonosov State University, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian FederationMoscow Lomonosov State University, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation Introduction Loneliness is a critical issue of adolescents that has grown severe during the last decade. Social media use is often regarded as negative factor of loneliness experience in connection with escapism. At the same time social media is an important part of adolescents’ communication sphere. The present study aims to explore positive functions of social media which can help adolescents cope with loneliness. Objectives The present research studies features of loneliness representation in adolescents with different behavior in social media. Methods Multidimensional Inventory of Loneliness Experience; Cognitive Processing of Social Information in Internet Questionnaire; Method of unfinished sentences about loneliness and social media; Questionnaire about social media were used in the study with 44 adolescents, aged from 13 to 18. Results Adolescents have a higher level of loneliness (M = 29.6) than the results in 2013 (M = 17.7) show. Context analysis of unfinished sentences shows that 21% of adolescents have a various representation of loneliness, 71% perceive loneliness as negative. General feel of loneliness tends to show negative correlations with adequate perception of information in social media (k = - 0.317; p = 0.038). Negative attitude to loneliness is negatively correlated with interpretation adequacy of social media content (k=-0.568, p<0,001). Adolescents with low levels of holistic social media perceptions have higher levels of loneliness. Use of social media can reduce feelings of loneliness (p = 0.002). Conclusions Social media expand adolescents’ representation of loneliness. Productive use of social media can help adolescent cope with loneliness. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822011142/type/journal_article |
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