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Social Media Addiction in the Clinical Context: Theory, Assessment, Prevention, Treatment

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 9314

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Halley M. Pontes

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Guest Editor
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham Campus, Building O, Launceston, TAS 7250, Australia
Interests: behavioral addictions; internet addiction; social media addiction; assessment; prevention; treatment
Dr. Bruno Schivinski

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School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is focused on advancing the current global understanding regarding the clinical aspects of social media addiction from a multidisciplinary perspective. To achieve this, the Special Issue aims to 1) expand the current clinical understanding of the underlying processes implicated in social media addiction to help advance robust theoretical understandings of this emerging health issue; 2) increase the quality of clinical and psychological assessment for social media addiction to enable better diagnostic practices and crosscultural research efforts; 3) promote evidence-based preventive and treatment measures tailored to social media addiction.

The Special Issue is mainly interested in publishing robust empirical studies addressing social media addiction from various scientific perspectives such as communication, anthropology, psychiatry, clinical psychology, epidemiology, public health, and neuroscience. The Special Issue will consider studies reporting negative findings and replication studies using diverse research designs such as experimental and cross-sectional designs. Although original research articles are particularly welcome, the Special Issue will also consider rigorous systematic reviews that fall within the scope of the Special Issue.

Dr. Halley M. Pontes
Dr. Bruno Schivinski
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • social media addiction
  • behavioral addictions
  • assessment
  • prevention
  • treatment

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Assessing Problematic Social Media Use in Adolescents by Parental Ratings: Development and Validation of the Social Media Disorder Scale for Parents (SMDS-P)
by Maria Isabella Austermann, Rainer Thomasius and Kerstin Paschke
J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10(4), 617; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10040617 - 6 Feb 2021
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Background: The problematic use of social media (SM) is a rising phenomenon, especially in adolescents. It can be assessed by self-rating screeners such as the Social Media Disorder Scale (SMDS). However, young age or symptom denial might reduce adolescent assessment accuracy. Therefore, the [...] Read more.
Background: The problematic use of social media (SM) is a rising phenomenon, especially in adolescents. It can be assessed by self-rating screeners such as the Social Media Disorder Scale (SMDS). However, young age or symptom denial might reduce adolescent assessment accuracy. Therefore, the development and validation of a parental scale (SMDS-P) is desirable. Method: A representative sample of 961 parents and corresponding frequently SM-using children aged 10 to 17 years participated in an online study. Factorial analyses were performed to determine item structure. Adolescents’ SMDS self-reports, SM usage time, emotional dysregulation, and academic performance were used to assess validity. The SMDS-P cut-off value was calculated by ROC-analysis. Results: A one-factorial structure of the SMDS-P could be confirmed. The internal consistency was good (Cronbach’s α = 0.85, McDonald’s ω = 0.88) and the accordance between parental and self-ratings moderate (kappa = 0.51). SMDS-P was positively associated with adolescents’ self-ratings (r = 0.68), SM usage time (r = 0.26) and frequency (ϱ = 0.16) as well as with emotional dysregulation (r = 0.35) in a highly significant manner. Conclusions: SMDS-P offers a promising new approach to assess problematic SM usage in adolescence. Further studies including clinical validations are required. Full article
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The Relationship between Problematic Facebook Use and Early Maladaptive Schemas
by Andrzej Cudo, Dorota Mącik, Mark D. Griffiths and Daria J. Kuss
J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(12), 3921; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9123921 - 3 Dec 2020
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Facebook is an increasingly popular online social media platform for communication, entertainment, and information exchange. Previous studies have shown the relationship between problematic Facebook use (PFU) and mental health problems. Additionally, previous studies have reported associations between maladaptive cognitive schemas and mental health [...] Read more.
Facebook is an increasingly popular online social media platform for communication, entertainment, and information exchange. Previous studies have shown the relationship between problematic Facebook use (PFU) and mental health problems. Additionally, previous studies have reported associations between maladaptive cognitive schemas and mental health problems. However, little is known about their impact on problematic behavior associated with Facebook use. Consequently, the present study investigated the relationship between PFU and early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) among Facebook users. The study comprised 619 Facebook users (568 females; age range from 18 to 30 years; M = 21.34, SD = 2.41 years). The severity of PFU was assessed using the Facebook Intrusion Scale, and EMS dimensions were assessed using the 90-item Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ–S3). The findings showed a positive relationship between PFU and EMSs, such as insufficient self-control/self-discipline and approval seeking. PFU was negatively associated with EMSs, such as social isolation/alienation and self-sacrifice schemas. Additionally, the findings showed that EMSs, as well as Facebook use characteristics, such as the time spent using Facebook per week, using Facebook apps, and number of friends on Facebook contributed to explaining the variance in PFU scores. These findings may contribute to a better understanding of mechanisms related to the development of PFU, which are associated with cognitive schemas. Additionally, the results may be useful in developing more effective methods of prevention and treatment of this problematic behavior. Full article
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