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Does time spent using social media impact mental health?: An eight year longitudinal study.

#Gettinghealthy: The perceived influence of social media on young adult health behaviors

Sexually objectifying portrayals of women are a frequent occurrence in mainstream media, raising questions about the potential impact of exposure to this content on others’ impressions of women and...

Media and Sexualization: State of Empirical Research, 1995–2015

Snapchat is more personal

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Facebook and self-perception: Individual susceptibility to negative social comparison on facebook.

This article reviews the recent literature on uses, effects, and gratifications of media during emerging adulthood. We examine traditional media forms, including television, films, video games, music, and books, and also newer media, such as cell phones, social networking sites, and other Internet use. We find that emerging adults spend more time using the media than they spend doing any other activity, with the most time being spent on the Internet and listening to music. We also find that exposure to certain types of media content can influence both positive and negative outcomes in emerging adulthood, including, aggressive and prosocial behavior, body image, sexual behavior, friendship quality, and academic achievement. We also show that emerging adults use the media to gratify certain needs; key among these are for autonomy, identity, and intimacy needs. Finally, we discuss areas for future research involving media and emerging adulthood.

Emerging in a Digital World A Decade Review of Media Use, Effects, and Gratifications in Emerging Adulthood

An approach-avoidance model of social withdrawal (Asendorpf, 1990) identifies 3 types of social withdrawal including shyness, unsociability, and avoidance Each appears to be uniquely associated with varying indicators of maladjustment in emerging adulthood (Nelson, 2013) but little, if any, work has been done to see how they might be linked to media use in the third decade of life Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine longitudinally the links between subtypes of social withdrawal, connective media (eg, e-mail, social networking) and problematic (forms of media such as violent video games that, when used in high amounts, have been found to be linked to indices of maladjustment) media use, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors The participants in the study (Mage = 2070, SD = 198, range = 18-29 at Time 2) consisted of 204 undergraduate students (58% female) recruited from 2 large public universities in the United States who completed questionnaires at 2 points of time separated by 1 year Results revealed that avoidant individuals use problematic forms of media more than average, unsociable, and shy individuals Furthermore, problematic media use predicted more withdrawn behavior at Time 2 and mediated the relation between avoidance and externalizing behaviors over time Few problems were found for unsociable behavior The need to differentiate between multiple forms of withdrawal in emerging adulthood and their links with problematic forms of media and subsequent risk factors is discussed (PsycINFO Database Record

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Withdrawing to a virtual world: associations between subtypes of withdrawal, media use, and maladjustment in emerging adults

Media Uses in Emerging Adulthood

Although many studies examine the behavioral effects of viewing media violence, there is little research on whether such violence is perceived as offensive to viewers. Accordingly, the current study examines whether media violence is offensive to viewers and whether feelings of offense mediate the r

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Emily Howard

Papers

Emerging in a Digital World A Decade Review of Media Use, Effects, and Gratifications in Emerging Adulthood

Withdrawing to a virtual world: associations between subtypes of withdrawal, media use, and maladjustment in emerging adults

Media Uses in Emerging Adulthood

Media violence and judgments of offensiveness: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.