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How Social Media Can Lead To Depression

De Chowdhury, Munmun, et al. "Predicting depression via social media." Icwsm 13 (2013): 1-10.

Major depression encompasses a severe challenge in public and personal health. Many individuals annually suffer from depression, and only a small percentage of them access adequate treatment. As a result, this article explores social media adoption potential to diagnose and detect major depressive disorder in individuals. The article commences by employing crowd sourcing to collect and compile a group of Twitter users that reported being diagnosed with clinical, depression which focuses on the standard psychometric instrument. The article leverages some of their conduct cues to establish a statistical classifier that showcases the risk of depression before the reported onset.

The article's findings indicate that social media possess important signs for characterizing onset of individual’s depression as measured via a reduction in social activity highly clustered egone networks, medical concerns, and heightened relational concerns of religious involvement. This article's findings are essential for contributing to this research topic since its methods are essential in developing tools for identifying the onset of primary depression employed by primary agencies. It may also provide essential insights on individuals experiencing depression to be more proactive and keen on their mental condition.

Dhir, Amandeep, et al. "Online social media fatigue and psychological wellbeing—A study of compulsive use, fear of missing out, fatigue, anxiety, and depression." International Journal of Information Management 40 (2018): 141-152.

The constant growth of online social media characteristics and related services has increased continuously and attracted many users. However, simultaneously, many users have diverted permanently or temporarily from social media employment due to the fatigue associated with this platform. Some scholars have explored varying antecedents and implications of social media fatigue. Nonetheless, the empirical interaction or association between social media fatigue and psychosocial wellbeing is unknown.

The article adopts the stressor-strain-outcome framework to explore whether psychosocial welfare determinants such as fear of missing out and compulsive media use causes fatigue in individuals and whether social media fatigue causes depression and anxiety in morning users to help bridge this gap. They have repeated cross-sectional methodology as utilized throughout the study, whereby two data waves were gathered to evaluate the research hypothesis model among Indian adolescent social media users.

The article's findings indicate that obsessive media employment considerably activates social media exhaustion, which later caused increased levels of uneasiness and dejection. The fear of missing out indirectly contributed to media fatigue via the mediation of compulsive social media use. The practical and theoretical implications of this research and its limitations and agendas for future or prospective studies are also outlined in the research. The article is essential since it provides essential insights into the relationship between media use and fatigue, which alters hopelessness and uneaseness. In other words, the findings of the research showcase that compulsive media use mediates better social media fatigue and the fear of missing out.

Hoge, Elizabeth, David Bickham, and Joanne Cantor. "Digital media, anxiety, and depression in children." Pediatrics 140.Supplement 2 (2017): S76-S80.

There are growing concerns on the implications of digital technologies on children's emotional welfare, especially concerning anxiety, depression, and fear. In this article, the two mental health segments are explored together since a significant commodity and sign overlap. Early research has examined the implication of traditional media such as movies and television on children's acute fears, which can cause related sleep disturbances and anxieties that may be challenging to remedy or cure.

The article also mentions other research forms that explore the relationship between newer Media, such as social media, and their implications on depression and anxiety. Some of the primary areas explored are the anxiety caused by lack of emotional-regulation skills; depression is caused by technology-based negative social relation. An increasing number of studies have identified the interaction between depression and digital media. Although evidence indicates that more significant digital media is related to depression signs and symptoms, there is also proof that the social facet of online platforms may be harnessed and controlled in some situations to leverage an individual’s mood and to enhance health among individuals. For this reason, this article acknowledges that there is a need for more research to help in connecting these possibilities.

O'Keeffe, Gwenn Schurgin, and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson. "The impact of social media on children, adolescents, and families." Pediatrics 127.4 (2011): 800-804.

Using social media websites ranks among the widely used activity among adolescents and contemporary children. Any online platform website that permits social interaction is classified as social media platforms such as My Space, Facebook, Sims, and Second Life, among others. Such networking sites provide the modern-day youths with a chance a portal for communication and entertainment and have received an increasing number of users in recent years. As a result, parents, guardians, and teachers must know the nature of such platforms considering that not all are healthy and safe for their children.

The article continues by indicating that Pediatricians can help guardians and parents comprehend the implications of these sites and encourage the healthy employment of such platforms. They urge guardians and parents to control and monitor their children's activities on different online platforms and check for any potential cyber-bullying or problems they may incur. Some children may also experience facebook depression due to the fear of missing out on many current issues. The article is essential for this research since it provides clinical evidence on social media's implications on families, adolescents, and children.

Works Cited

De Chowdhury, Munmun, et al. "Predicting depression via social media." Icwsm 13 (2013): 1-10.

Dhir, Amandeep, et al. "Online social media fatigue and psychological wellbeing—A study of compulsive use, fear of missing out, fatigue, anxiety and depression." International Journal of Information Management 40 (2018): 141-152.

Hoge, Elizabeth, David Bickham, and Joanne Cantor. "Digital media, anxiety, and depression in children." Pediatrics 140.Supplement 2 (2017): S76-S80.

O'Keeffe, Gwenn Schurgin, and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson. "The impact of social media on children, adolescents, and families." Pediatrics 127.4 (2011): 800-804.