Social Media Psychology

s well as we also know that there is a bi-directional association between mental health difficulties and so

very common co-occurrences between negative psychological outcomes and social media use

As a result, whilst social media has been shown to be effective at reducing stigma (Primack et al., 2018a), improving social connectedness and aiding one’s ability to cope with daily stress and well-being (Dodson et al., 2020; Wolfers & Schneider, 2020), increasing a person’s social support and self-esteem (for a review, see Best et al., 2014), it does have associated risks and it is these risks that simply cannot be ignored no matter what anyone else says. (J. A. Naslund et al., 2016).

For example, depositional factors (personal characteristics that influence their behaviour), like, their personality, their needs, attachment types and self-esteem (Andreassen & Pallesen, 2014; Flynn et al., 2018; Hébert-Ratté & Poulin, 2019),