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A Week Without Using Social Media: Results from an Ecological Momentary Intervention Study Using Smartphones.
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In this paper, the impact of social media on people's daily lives has been studied, but little is known about how and why we use social media, and how they affect our daily lives.Abstract:
Online social media is now omnipresent in many people's daily lives. Much research has been conducted on how and why we use social media, but little is known about the impact of social med...read more
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Can Simulated Nature Support Mental Health? Comparing Short, Single-Doses of 360-Degree Nature Videos in Virtual Reality With the Outdoors.
Matthew H. E. M. Browning,Katherine J. Mimnaugh,Katherine J. Mimnaugh,Carena J. van Riper,Heidemarie K. Laurent,Steven M. LaValle +5 more
TL;DR: The nature-based experience shows benefits above and beyond the variance explained by participants’ preferences, nature and VR experiences, and demographic characteristics, and settings where people have limited access to nature might consider using VR nature experiences to promote mental health.
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Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories
TL;DR: The present work supports the notion that it is time to critically reflect on the prevailing business model of ‘user data in exchange for app-use allowance’ and suggests that it ultimately might be better to ban or regulate certain design elements in apps to come up with less addictive products.
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Social Media Use and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moderator Role of Disaster Stressor and Mediator Role of Negative Affect.
Nan Zhao,Guangyu Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that the disaster stressor may be a risk factor that amplifies the deleterious impact of social media use on depression and excessive exposure to disaster on social media may trigger negative affect, which may in turn contribute to mental health problems.
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Are smartphones really that bad? Improving the psychological measurement of technology-related behaviors
TL;DR: It is argued that the latest generation of psychometric tools, which aim to assess smartphone usage, are unable to capture technology related experiences or behaviors.
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Analysis of Problematic Smartphone Use Across Different Age Groups within the ‘Components Model of Addiction’
TL;DR: The results suggest that preventive measures should be primarily targeted to the two most vulnerable age groups represented by preschool children and emerging adults, which are at highest risk for smartphone-related addictive behavior.
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Why do people use Facebook
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The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
TL;DR: Smartphone research will require new skills in app development and data analysis and will raise tough new ethical issues, but smartphones could transform psychology even more profoundly than PCs and brain imaging did.
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Proposed diagnostic criteria for internet addiction.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the proposed diagnostic criteria may be useful for the standardization of diagnostic criteria for IAD.