The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
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Title
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
Subject
Social Networking Sites (SNS), Internet, Television, Media Use, Subjective Well-being, Life Satisfaction, Depressive Symptomatology, Longitudinal Analysis, Adolescents
Description
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such as TV use, self-esteem, and satisfaction with friends. We found that frequency of Internet use in general and use of SNS in particular is not substantially related subjective well-being. The explanatory power of general Internet use or SNS use to predict between-person differences or within-person change in subjective well-being is close to zero. TV use, a potentially confounding variable, is negatively related to satisfaction with life, but it does not affect depressive symptomatology. However, this effect is too
small to be of practical relevance.
small to be of practical relevance.
Creator
Christian Schemer ,Philipp K. Masur ,Stefan Geiß ,Philipp Mu¨ ller ,& Svenja Schafer
Source
https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/26/1/1/6032209
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
25 August 2020
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Coverage
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 26 (2021)
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Citation
Christian Schemer ,Philipp K. Masur ,Stefan Geiß ,Philipp Mu¨ ller ,& Svenja Schafer, “The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed May 20, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8698.