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The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults

During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been exposed to distressing content about COVID-19 without knowing whether they can trust such content. This indicates a need to examine the effects of social media use on mental health and well-being. Existing research provides an inconsistent impress...

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Autores principales: Hoffman, Adam J., McGuire, Luke, Mathews, Channing J., Joy, Angelina, Law, Fidelia, Drews, Marc, Rutland, Adam, Hartstone-Rose, Adam, Winterbottom, Mark, Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36952559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282076
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author Hoffman, Adam J.
McGuire, Luke
Mathews, Channing J.
Joy, Angelina
Law, Fidelia
Drews, Marc
Rutland, Adam
Hartstone-Rose, Adam
Winterbottom, Mark
Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
author_facet Hoffman, Adam J.
McGuire, Luke
Mathews, Channing J.
Joy, Angelina
Law, Fidelia
Drews, Marc
Rutland, Adam
Hartstone-Rose, Adam
Winterbottom, Mark
Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
author_sort Hoffman, Adam J.
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been exposed to distressing content about COVID-19 without knowing whether they can trust such content. This indicates a need to examine the effects of social media use on mental health and well-being. Existing research provides an inconsistent impression of such effects. Thus, we examined the relation between exposure to COVID-19 information on social media and well-being and assessed if trust in COVID-19 information on social media moderated this relationship. The sample consisted of 168 adolescents and young adults from the U.K. and U.S. (M(age) = 17.4 years). Participants completed measures of exposure to, and trust in, COVID-19 information on social media platforms, and measures of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Results revealed a null to positive relation between exposure to COVID-19 information on social media and well-being across measures. However, when trust was added to the models as a moderator, results indicated that, for adolescents with higher levels of trust in COVID-19 information found on social media, the relation between information encountered on social media and well-being was positive. In contrast, for adolescents with lower levels of trust, the association between information encountered on social media and well-being was null or sometimes negative. Given the lack of consensus about the impact of social media use on well-being, these results point to the importance of trust when assessing the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 information and well-being.
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spelling pubmed-100358392023-03-24 The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults Hoffman, Adam J. McGuire, Luke Mathews, Channing J. Joy, Angelina Law, Fidelia Drews, Marc Rutland, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Adam Winterbottom, Mark Mulvey, Kelly Lynn PLoS One Research Article During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been exposed to distressing content about COVID-19 without knowing whether they can trust such content. This indicates a need to examine the effects of social media use on mental health and well-being. Existing research provides an inconsistent impression of such effects. Thus, we examined the relation between exposure to COVID-19 information on social media and well-being and assessed if trust in COVID-19 information on social media moderated this relationship. The sample consisted of 168 adolescents and young adults from the U.K. and U.S. (M(age) = 17.4 years). Participants completed measures of exposure to, and trust in, COVID-19 information on social media platforms, and measures of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Results revealed a null to positive relation between exposure to COVID-19 information on social media and well-being across measures. However, when trust was added to the models as a moderator, results indicated that, for adolescents with higher levels of trust in COVID-19 information found on social media, the relation between information encountered on social media and well-being was positive. In contrast, for adolescents with lower levels of trust, the association between information encountered on social media and well-being was null or sometimes negative. Given the lack of consensus about the impact of social media use on well-being, these results point to the importance of trust when assessing the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 information and well-being. Public Library of Science 2023-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10035839/ /pubmed/36952559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282076 Text en © 2023 Hoffman et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hoffman, Adam J.
McGuire, Luke
Mathews, Channing J.
Joy, Angelina
Law, Fidelia
Drews, Marc
Rutland, Adam
Hartstone-Rose, Adam
Winterbottom, Mark
Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
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title The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
title_full The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
title_fullStr The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
title_full_unstemmed The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
title_short The importance of trust in the relation between COVID-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
title_sort importance of trust in the relation between covid-19 information from social media and well-being among adolescents and young adults
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36952559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282076
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