Research Questions

The more people share their lives on their online profiles, the more they are at risk of being afraid of missing updates and feeling the urge to check their profiles for feedback (16, 83). This specific phenomenon has been labeled “fear of missing out” (FoMO), defining the pervasive anxiety experienced by a user when thinking […]

Social anxiety is described by the enduring preoccupation of being judged negatively by others during a social performance or social circumstances (65). The worry of receiving unfavorable feedback is even stronger during adolescence, when the identity of the self is developing. Online activity on social media can be very attractive, especially for young people with

Symptoms relating to anxiety often overlap with depression, especially in youths; just like depression, anxious manifestations may result from a set of internal and external circumstances. In social media, where the relational component is strong, anxiety can derive from a perception of being connected inappropriately, from negative online peer-comparison, or from reduced emotion-regulation abilities, as

Amid the research investigating the connection between social media usage and depressive symptoms, a few studies reported no evidence linking social media sites and depression. A recent study investigated the relationships between reasons for Facebook use and psychological and mental health outcomes for a 3-year period in late adolescents, aged from 17 to 19 years.

Social comparison is a mechanism highly involved in the development of a person’s identity starting from childhood, where evaluations are more distorted especially in a positive way, throughout adolescence, when the greater development of cognitive skills permit the generation of more realistic estimates(73). Social comparison, as a consequence, can generate both a positive or a

Passive social media use appears to be increased by depressive symptoms, loneliness, and high levels of stress. In a longitudinal study, Kross and colleagues have demonstrated that a sense of loneliness is a predictor for more intense usage of social media (71), as it might represent a solution to alleviate depressed mood, reinforcing PSMU (68).

Depression is a prevalent mood disorder, in which symptoms include persistent sadness and a loss of interest in activities that the person enjoys typically, together with the inability to carry out daily activities (65). With regard to childhood and adolescence, interpersonal models of depression in developmental ages accentuate the cyclical associations between social experiences and

In our global digital world, social connections are embedded within the external environment we are physically engaged in and the life that we virtually share on social media. Social media is a class of mobile and Internet-based applications that allow people to receive information and to build and share user-generated content. Through the creation of

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