Research paper on social networking addiction

Ncbi web site requires javascript to tionresourceshow toabout ncbi accesskeysmy ncbisign in to ncbisign l listcyberpsychol behav soc sychology, behavior and social sychol behav soc netw. 0070pmcid: pmc4183915online social networking and mental healthigor pantic, md, phdschool of medicine, institute of medical physiology, university of belgrade, belgrade, ponding s correspondence to:, dr. Pantic, institute of medical physiology, school of medicine, university of belgrade, visegradska 26/ii, 11129, belgrade, serbia, e-mail:email: @thor information ► copyright and license information ►copyright 2014, mary ann liebert, article has been cited by other articles in ctduring the past decade, online social networking has caused profound changes in the way people communicate and interact. Several studies have indicated that the prolonged use of social networking sites (sns), such as facebook, may be related to signs and symptoms of depression. Other studies have presented opposite results in terms of positive impact of social networking on self-esteem. The relationship between sns use and mental problems to this day remains controversial, and research on this issue is faced with numerous challenges. This concise review focuses on the recent findings regarding the suggested connection between sns and mental health issues such as depressive symptoms, changes in self-esteem, and internet uctionduring the past 10 years, the rapid development of social networking sites (snss) such as facebook, twitter, myspace, and so on has caused several profound changes in the way people communicate and interact.

Research paper on impact of social networking sites

Facebook, as the biggest social networking web site, today has more than one billion active users, and it is estimated that in the future, this number will significantly increase, especially in developing countries. Facebook is used for both business and personal communication, and its application has brought numerous advantages in terms of increasing connectivity, sharing ideas, and online ly, however, some researchers have associated online social networking with several psychiatric disorders, including depressive symptoms, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Since social networks are a relatively new phenomenon, many questions regarding their potential impact on mental health remain unanswered. On the other hand, due to the popularity of these online services in the general population, any future confirmed connection between them and psychiatric diseases would pose a serious public health concise review focuses on the recent research regarding the suggested connection between social networking and depressive symptoms, changes in self-esteem, and other potential psychiatric problems and issues. The search was conducted using a total of 50 different keywords related to social networking and mental health, such as “facebook,” “twitter,” “depression,” “addiction,” “self-esteem,” and so on. The number of citations for selected article was determined using the elsevier scopus ok and symptoms of depressionalthough several studies have made the connection between computer-mediated communication and signs and symptoms of depression, this issue remains controversial in current psychiatry research. Published one of the first studies to indicate that internet use in general significantly affects social relationships and participation in community life.

In this research, the authors found that increased time spent online is related to a decline in communication with family members, as well as the reduction of the internet user's social circle, which may further lead to increased feelings of depression and loneliness. This work was later followed by several other publications where it was suggested that computer use may have negative effects on children's social development. The time when these studies were conducted, most of today's social networks did not exist. Violent video games) on mental the development of social networks, the time children and adolescents spend in front of the computer screens has significantly increased. This has led to the further reduction of intensity of interpersonal communication both in the family and in the wider social environment. Although social networks enable an individual to interact with a large number of people, these interactions are shallow and cannot adequately replace everyday face-to-face social networks are a relatively recent phenomenon, this potential relationship between their use and feelings of loneliness and depression has not yet been properly investigated. Most of the research on this issue has been published during the past few years, and so far, the scientific community has not been able to interpret and discuss the results our recent study in a high school student population, we found a statistically significant positive correlation between depressive symptoms and time spent on sns.

The design of this research was based on text messaging the participants five times per day for 2 weeks in order to evaluate their mood, feeling of loneliness, social interactions, and social facebook use. This approach was combined with the application of a conventional set of questionnaires, such as the beck depression inventory, rosenberg self-esteem scale, social provision scale, and revised ucla loneliness scale. In other words, certain depressive behavioral characteristics of a social network user can be quantified, and that quantification has a potentially high predictive value for a future diagnosis of depression. It seems that when social networks and the internet in general are used to strengthen and maintain social ties, particularly within family members and close friends, the resulting social support has beneficial effects on mental health. On the other hand, extensive use of sns outside these circles might weaken existing close family and friend interactions and increase feelings of loneliness and networking and self-esteemmany authors define the term “self-esteem” as “the evaluative component of the self—the degree to which one prizes, values, approves or likes oneself. 14 low self-esteem is associated with the pathogenesis of numerous mental illnesses, including depression, eating disorders, and addiction. 22 recent studies have presented conflicting results regarding the potential influence of facebook and other sns on of the possible explanations regarding the negative relationship between facebook and self-esteem is that all social networking platforms where self-presentation is the principal user activity cause or at least promote narcissistic behavior.

To data from recent literature, as well as the above-mentioned research, there are indeed several models/theories on the possible effect of computer-mediated communication on self-esteem in the general population. Constant self-evaluation on an everyday basis, competition and comparing one's own achievements with those of other users, incorrectly perceiving physical/emotional/social characteristics of others, feeling of jealousy, and narcissistic behavior—these are all factors that may positively or negatively influence self-esteem. Unfortunately, despite several research efforts during the past decade, this issue still remains unresolved, and probably many years will pass before we comprehend the true nature of this social network addictionaddiction to online social networking, as well as internet addiction in general, are recent and insufficiently investigated phenomena, frequently discussed and sometimes disputed in the psychiatric literature. 35 the addictive nature of sns is supported primarily by the mental preoccupation of many chronic sns users who as a result tend to neglect other aspects of their social functioning such as family and offline friends. Lack of internet connection) may in some chronic users cause signs and symptoms that at least partially resemble the ones seen during drug/alcohol/nicotine abstinence social networking as a potential addiction disorder has so far been discussed in many publications. 31,33,35–37 sns addiction represents a relatively new issue in psychiatry research, and as with other potentially sns-related disorders, many questions remain 2012, andreassen et al. Developed the facebook addiction scale, a scoring system initially based on a total of 18 items, testing features of addiction such as salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, and relapse.

The same year, regarding this study, griffiths35 expressed concern that the term “facebook addiction” may be obsolete due to a large variety of activities that can be done on facebook besides conventional social networking (i. Nevertheless, any attempt to design a scoring system that would be able to quantify at least a certain aspect of social networking addiction is, in our opinion, an important addition to the present knowledge in this zak et al. Recently adapted the internet addiction questionnaire in order to test facebook dependence in the student population. To our knowledge, this is the first study to modify existing questionnaires for internet addiction in order to test facebook ly, the most important question is whether sns addiction is actually a mental disorder, and whether it should be diagnosed and treated as such. However, one must be very careful with this approach, since in the future it could be quite difficult to distinguish sns addiction from internet addiction, which is a much more general disorder (internet addiction disorder, problematic internet use, or compulsive internet use). Furthermore, it should be noted that neither internet nor sns addiction have been included in the latest disease classification manuals such as diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5). Therefore, it remains unclear whether potential sns addiction is an independent illness, or merely a manifestation of other mental issues such as, for example, personality in all, it remains to be seen whether sns addiction will ever be recognized as a separate mental disorder.

It can be expected that in the future, this issue will be a focal point of many research studies, and that, in the years to come, it will become the subject of a wide debate among psychiatrists, psychologists, and other specialists. The final results and conclusions will have a substantial impact on the future organization of the mental health system, particularly considering that online social networking affects such a large proportion of the world prospectsit can be expected that future research regarding the potential effects of online social networking on mental health is going to be faced with numerous difficulties. Ultimately, the data obtained from experimental studies would enable us to draw definite conclusions on this should be noted that most of the research done so far on social networking and mental health was done on a healthy population (i. When it is stated that, for example, “time spent on social networking is related to depression,” the authors usually mean that this time correlates with physiological mood oscillations (measured with various psychological scales), rather than depression as a clinical entity. In fact, to our knowledge, no research of this sort has so far been conducted on psychiatric patients. Therefore, a possible connection between social networking and mental health issues can only be discussed in terms of normal physiological (psychophysiological) variations of psychic should always have in mind that not all of the social networks are the same. Most of the studies mentioned in this text have been focused on facebook as the predominant sns, and even in the studies where authors in the title state the term “social networking,” in most cases, facebook is the primary target of investigation.

In the future, it can be expected that twitter will also become the subject of many research studies simply do not test various potential confounding factors that may influence conventional correlation in terms of enhancing or reducing it. For example, it may well be possible that people with some personality disorders (which are quite frequent and often undiagnosed) spend much more time on online social networks compared to the general population because computer-mediated communication enables them to be socially more successful. These individuals, if included in a research study, will probably influence the results of self-esteem, depression, addiction, and other questionnaires. This would also have to be combined with additional statistical tests such as multivariate regression of the research on social networking and mental health has so far been performed using conventional psychiatric questionnaires, such as the above-mentioned rosenberg self-esteem scale, the beck depression inventory, and others. For example, for quantification of depressive symptoms, the researcher may choose between scales such as the beck depression inventory, the centre for epidemiological studies—depression scale (ces-d), the hamilton rating scale for depression (ham-d), the zung self-rating depression scale, the montgomery–åsberg depression rating scale (madrs), and so on. Although these scales are established tools in psychology and psychiatry research, sometimes when designing a study, it is difficult to determine which scale has the best sensitivity for the given population/study sample. In the future, there may be a need to design and implement novel, advanced scales that would be adjusted to evaluate potential mental problems in light of the rapid development of information technology, or at least to compare the existing ones in terms of establishing a set of recommendations for their application in these new conclusion, it is clear that during the past 10 years, online social networking has caused significant changes in the way people communicate and interact.

In the future, additional research will be needed to identify and describe the potential relationship between the use of sns and various mental health ledgmentsthe author is grateful to the republic of serbia, ministry of science and education (grants 175059 and 41027), as well as the project 62013 of the degu society, belgrade, serbia. The author also apologizes to all researchers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and social networking whose articles were not cited (unintentionally or due to the page limitations) in this disclosure statementno competing financial interests nces1. Relationship of childhood physical abuse and internet addiction disorder in adolescence: the mediating role of self-esteem]. Fioravanti g, dettore d, casale cent internet addiction: testing the association between self-esteem, the perception of internet attributes, and preference for online social interactions. Self-esteem and social anxiety in an adolescent female eating disorder population: age and diagnostic effects. Floros g, siomos relationship between optimal parenting, internet addiction and motives for social networking in adolescence. Addiction to new technologies and to online social networking in young people: a new challenge].

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