Getting Fewer "Likes" Than Others on Social Media Elicits Emotional Distress Among Victimized Adolescents.
Child Dev
; 91(6): 2141-2159, 2020 11.
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| ID: mdl-32892358
ABSTRACT
Three studies examined the effects of receiving fewer signs of positive feedback than others on social media. In Study 1, adolescents (N = 613, Mage = 14.3 years) who were randomly assigned to receive few (vs. many) likes during a standardized social media interaction felt more strongly rejected, and reported more negative affect and more negative thoughts about themselves. In Study 2 (N = 145), negative responses to receiving fewer likes were associated with greater depressive symptoms reported day-to-day and at the end of the school year. Study 3 (N = 579) replicated Study 1's main effect of receiving fewer likes and showed that adolescents who already experienced peer victimization at school were the most vulnerable. The findings raise the possibility that technology which makes it easier for adolescents to compare their social status online-even when there is no chance to share explicitly negative comments-could be a risk factor that accelerates the onset of internalizing symptoms among vulnerable youth.
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Clinical_trials
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article