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The relationship between self-report of depression and media usage

Depression is a debilitating condition that adversely affects many aspects of a person's life and general health. Earlier work has supported the idea that there may be a relationship between the use of certain media and depression. In this study, we tested if self-report of depression (SRD), wh...

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Autores principales: Block, Martin, Stern, Daniel B., Raman, Kalyan, Lee, Sang, Carey, Jim, Humphreys, Ashlee A., Mulhern, Frank, Calder, Bobby, Schultz, Don, Rudick, Charles N., Blood, Anne J., Breiter, Hans C.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25309388
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00712
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author Block, Martin
Stern, Daniel B.
Raman, Kalyan
Lee, Sang
Carey, Jim
Humphreys, Ashlee A.
Mulhern, Frank
Calder, Bobby
Schultz, Don
Rudick, Charles N.
Blood, Anne J.
Breiter, Hans C.
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Stern, Daniel B.
Raman, Kalyan
Lee, Sang
Carey, Jim
Humphreys, Ashlee A.
Mulhern, Frank
Calder, Bobby
Schultz, Don
Rudick, Charles N.
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Breiter, Hans C.
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description Depression is a debilitating condition that adversely affects many aspects of a person's life and general health. Earlier work has supported the idea that there may be a relationship between the use of certain media and depression. In this study, we tested if self-report of depression (SRD), which is not a clinically based diagnosis, was associated with increased internet, television, and social media usage by using data collected in the Media Behavior and Influence Study (MBIS) database (N = 19,776 subjects). We further assessed the relationship of demographic variables to this association. These analyses found that SRD rates were in the range of published rates of clinically diagnosed major depression. It found that those who tended to use more media also tended to be more depressed, and that segmentation of SRD subjects was weighted toward internet and television usage, which was not the case with non-SRD subjects, who were segmented along social media use. This study found that those who have suffered either economic or physical life setbacks are orders of magnitude more likely to be depressed, even without disproportionately high levels of media use. However, among those that have suffered major life setbacks, high media users—particularly television watchers—were even more likely to report experiencing depression, which suggests that these effects were not just due to individuals having more time for media consumption. These findings provide an example of how Big Data can be used for medical and mental health research, helping to elucidate issues not traditionally tested in the fields of psychiatry or experimental psychology.
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spelling pubmed-41623552014-10-10 The relationship between self-report of depression and media usage Block, Martin Stern, Daniel B. Raman, Kalyan Lee, Sang Carey, Jim Humphreys, Ashlee A. Mulhern, Frank Calder, Bobby Schultz, Don Rudick, Charles N. Blood, Anne J. Breiter, Hans C. Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Depression is a debilitating condition that adversely affects many aspects of a person's life and general health. Earlier work has supported the idea that there may be a relationship between the use of certain media and depression. In this study, we tested if self-report of depression (SRD), which is not a clinically based diagnosis, was associated with increased internet, television, and social media usage by using data collected in the Media Behavior and Influence Study (MBIS) database (N = 19,776 subjects). We further assessed the relationship of demographic variables to this association. These analyses found that SRD rates were in the range of published rates of clinically diagnosed major depression. It found that those who tended to use more media also tended to be more depressed, and that segmentation of SRD subjects was weighted toward internet and television usage, which was not the case with non-SRD subjects, who were segmented along social media use. This study found that those who have suffered either economic or physical life setbacks are orders of magnitude more likely to be depressed, even without disproportionately high levels of media use. However, among those that have suffered major life setbacks, high media users—particularly television watchers—were even more likely to report experiencing depression, which suggests that these effects were not just due to individuals having more time for media consumption. These findings provide an example of how Big Data can be used for medical and mental health research, helping to elucidate issues not traditionally tested in the fields of psychiatry or experimental psychology. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4162355/ /pubmed/25309388 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00712 Text en Copyright © 2014 Block, Stern, Raman, Lee, Carey, Humphreys, Mulhern, Calder, Schultz, Rudick, Blood and Breiter. http://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) or licensor 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.
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Block, Martin
Stern, Daniel B.
Raman, Kalyan
Lee, Sang
Carey, Jim
Humphreys, Ashlee A.
Mulhern, Frank
Calder, Bobby
Schultz, Don
Rudick, Charles N.
Blood, Anne J.
Breiter, Hans C.
The relationship between self-report of depression and media usage
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title_fullStr The relationship between self-report of depression and media usage
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title_short The relationship between self-report of depression and media usage
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25309388
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00712
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