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The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults

Selfie-related activities have become pervasive to the point that they may affect the mental health of people who engage in them. To ascertain this mechanism, this study examined the mediating role of selfitis in the associations between self-esteem, problematic social media use, problematic smartph...

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Autores principales: Oppong, Derek, Adjaottor, Emma Sethina, Addo, Frimpong-Manso, Nyaledzigbor, Worlali, Ofori-Amanfo, Amma Serwaa, Chen, Hsin-Pao, Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554024
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122500
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author Oppong, Derek
Adjaottor, Emma Sethina
Addo, Frimpong-Manso
Nyaledzigbor, Worlali
Ofori-Amanfo, Amma Serwaa
Chen, Hsin-Pao
Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi
author_facet Oppong, Derek
Adjaottor, Emma Sethina
Addo, Frimpong-Manso
Nyaledzigbor, Worlali
Ofori-Amanfo, Amma Serwaa
Chen, Hsin-Pao
Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi
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description Selfie-related activities have become pervasive to the point that they may affect the mental health of people who engage in them. To ascertain this mechanism, this study examined the mediating role of selfitis in the associations between self-esteem, problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, body-self appearance, and psychological distress among young Ghanaian adults. A total of 651 participants completed a questionnaire with measures on self-esteem, body-self appearance, problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, depression, anxiety, stress, coping skills, and selfitis. There were direct associations between all the variables except between self-esteem and selfitis. In addition, selfitis mediated the associations between problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, body-self appearance, and psychological distress except between self-esteem and psychological distress. These findings suggest that selfitis can serve as a pathway by which people who overly engage in problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, and have poor body-self appearance may experience psychological distress. Hence, there is a need for health communicators, school authorities, and opinion leaders to educate young adults on the consequences of the problematic use of technology, especially for selfitis behaviour. Future studies can examine the factors that predict selfitis behaviour among adults.
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spelling pubmed-97784292022-12-23 The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults Oppong, Derek Adjaottor, Emma Sethina Addo, Frimpong-Manso Nyaledzigbor, Worlali Ofori-Amanfo, Amma Serwaa Chen, Hsin-Pao Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi Healthcare (Basel) Article Selfie-related activities have become pervasive to the point that they may affect the mental health of people who engage in them. To ascertain this mechanism, this study examined the mediating role of selfitis in the associations between self-esteem, problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, body-self appearance, and psychological distress among young Ghanaian adults. A total of 651 participants completed a questionnaire with measures on self-esteem, body-self appearance, problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, depression, anxiety, stress, coping skills, and selfitis. There were direct associations between all the variables except between self-esteem and selfitis. In addition, selfitis mediated the associations between problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, body-self appearance, and psychological distress except between self-esteem and psychological distress. These findings suggest that selfitis can serve as a pathway by which people who overly engage in problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, and have poor body-self appearance may experience psychological distress. Hence, there is a need for health communicators, school authorities, and opinion leaders to educate young adults on the consequences of the problematic use of technology, especially for selfitis behaviour. Future studies can examine the factors that predict selfitis behaviour among adults. MDPI 2022-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9778429/ /pubmed/36554024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122500 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Oppong, Derek
Adjaottor, Emma Sethina
Addo, Frimpong-Manso
Nyaledzigbor, Worlali
Ofori-Amanfo, Amma Serwaa
Chen, Hsin-Pao
Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi
The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title_full The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title_fullStr The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title_full_unstemmed The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title_short The Mediating Role of Selfitis in the Associations between Self-Esteem, Problematic Social Media Use, Problematic Smartphone Use, Body-Self Appearance, and Psychological Distress among Young Ghanaian Adults
title_sort mediating role of selfitis in the associations between self-esteem, problematic social media use, problematic smartphone use, body-self appearance, and psychological distress among young ghanaian adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554024
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122500
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