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Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic
INTRODUCTION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents had to deal with a range of mental health problems that has increased social media addiction levels with adverse effects on life satisfaction. Previous studies have explored coping mechanisms to deal with this addiction problem, but did not con...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37711427 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1211431 |
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author | Varela, Jorge J. Pérez, Janet Carola Rodríguez-Rivas, Matías E. Chuecas, María Josefina Romo, Javiera |
author_facet | Varela, Jorge J. Pérez, Janet Carola Rodríguez-Rivas, Matías E. Chuecas, María Josefina Romo, Javiera |
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description | INTRODUCTION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents had to deal with a range of mental health problems that has increased social media addiction levels with adverse effects on life satisfaction. Previous studies have explored coping mechanisms to deal with this addiction problem, but did not consider the need to simultaneously cope with different dimensions. Therefore, our study aimed to examine the moderating effect of various coping mechanisms on the relationship between social media addiction and adolescent life satisfaction. METHODS: Self-report questionnaires were applied to 1290 secondary school students (age mean = 16.03, SD = 1.27, range: 14 to 19; and 57% female). An exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis were performed to determine the factor structure of the Brief-Cope 28 scale. Then, a descriptive and correlational analysis of the variables and a multiple linear regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: We found that the social media addiction risk was negatively associated with life satisfaction, adaptive strategies were positively correlated to life satisfaction, and maladaptive strategies were negatively correlated to it. Also, a moderation model was evaluated in which four stress management strategies, namely acceptance and perspective-taking, seeking socio-emotional support, active coping, and maladaptive strategies all conditioned the relationship between social media addiction risk and life satisfaction after controlling for demographic variables and the specific strategies of using comedy, religion and substance use. Results indicate additive and multiplicative effects of management strategies for stressful situations in the studied relationship. Seeking socio-emotional support and active coping were positively related to life satisfaction and maladaptive strategies were negatively associated with it. Multiplicative effects indicate that the relationship between the social media addiction risk and life satisfaction depends only on the acceptance and perspective taking that adolescents report. When adolescents reported having low or average levels of acceptance and perspective taking, there was a negative correlation with general life satisfaction, a connection that grew markedly stronger. In contrast, no connection between social media addiction and life satisfaction was detected for adolescents who report higher levels of acceptance and perspective-taking. DISCUSSION: Abuse of social media and the use of maladaptive stress coping strategies were risk factors that decreased life satisfaction among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic period. |
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spelling | pubmed-104977692023-09-14 Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic Varela, Jorge J. Pérez, Janet Carola Rodríguez-Rivas, Matías E. Chuecas, María Josefina Romo, Javiera Front Psychiatry Psychiatry INTRODUCTION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents had to deal with a range of mental health problems that has increased social media addiction levels with adverse effects on life satisfaction. Previous studies have explored coping mechanisms to deal with this addiction problem, but did not consider the need to simultaneously cope with different dimensions. Therefore, our study aimed to examine the moderating effect of various coping mechanisms on the relationship between social media addiction and adolescent life satisfaction. METHODS: Self-report questionnaires were applied to 1290 secondary school students (age mean = 16.03, SD = 1.27, range: 14 to 19; and 57% female). An exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis were performed to determine the factor structure of the Brief-Cope 28 scale. Then, a descriptive and correlational analysis of the variables and a multiple linear regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: We found that the social media addiction risk was negatively associated with life satisfaction, adaptive strategies were positively correlated to life satisfaction, and maladaptive strategies were negatively correlated to it. Also, a moderation model was evaluated in which four stress management strategies, namely acceptance and perspective-taking, seeking socio-emotional support, active coping, and maladaptive strategies all conditioned the relationship between social media addiction risk and life satisfaction after controlling for demographic variables and the specific strategies of using comedy, religion and substance use. Results indicate additive and multiplicative effects of management strategies for stressful situations in the studied relationship. Seeking socio-emotional support and active coping were positively related to life satisfaction and maladaptive strategies were negatively associated with it. Multiplicative effects indicate that the relationship between the social media addiction risk and life satisfaction depends only on the acceptance and perspective taking that adolescents report. When adolescents reported having low or average levels of acceptance and perspective taking, there was a negative correlation with general life satisfaction, a connection that grew markedly stronger. In contrast, no connection between social media addiction and life satisfaction was detected for adolescents who report higher levels of acceptance and perspective-taking. DISCUSSION: Abuse of social media and the use of maladaptive stress coping strategies were risk factors that decreased life satisfaction among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10497769/ /pubmed/37711427 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1211431 Text en Copyright © 2023 Varela, Pérez, Rodríguez-Rivas, Chuecas and Romo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Varela, Jorge J. Pérez, Janet Carola Rodríguez-Rivas, Matías E. Chuecas, María Josefina Romo, Javiera Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title | Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title_full | Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title_fullStr | Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title_short | Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
title_sort | wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among chilean adolescents during the pandemic |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37711427 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1211431 |
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