Doomscrolling during COVID-19: The negative association between daily social and traditional media consumption and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic
Price M, Legrand AC, Brier ZMF, van Stolk-Cooke K, Peck K, Dodds PS, Danforth CM, Adams ZW
Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 46 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Estudio de cohortes (clasificado por nuestro filtro de IA)
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- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Gobierno
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Gobierno
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Gobierno
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Gobierno
- NIMH NIH HHS
- Gobierno
- NIGMS NIH HHS
- Empresa
- Child and Adolescent Psychology Training and Research, Inc.
- Gobierno
- NIDA NIH HHS
- Subvenciones
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20 GM103644); National Institute of General Medical Sciences (5P20GM103644-06); National Institute of Mental Health (K08MH107661); National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA038257)
Según 7 financiadores declarados.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2022-02-14 · Psychol Trauma · vol. 14 · número 8 · págs. 1338–1346
- Editorial
- American Psychological Association
- Citado
- 128 citas · más que el 100% de estudios similares · 22.8× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 20 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista híbrida) · OTHER-OA
- Áreas de investigación
- Mental Health via Writing · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Palabras clave
- doomscrolling, COVID-19 pandemic, social media use, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, child abuse, psychopathology, negative affect, media exposure
- MeSH
- humans, mental health, mental disorders, pandemics, social media, covid-19
8 autores
- Matthew Price🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Alison C. Legrand🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Zoe M. F. Brier🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Katherine van Stolk‐Cooke🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Kelly R. Peck🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Peter Sheridan Dodds🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Christopher M. Danforth🇺🇸University of Vermont
- Zachary W. AdamsIndiana University School of Medicine
Resumen
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Objective
Consumption of traditional and social media markedly increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as new information about the virus and safety guidelines evolved. Much of the information concerned restrictions on daily living activities and the risk posed by the virus. The term doomscrolling is used to describe the phenomenon of elevated negative affect after viewing pandemic-related media. The magnitude and duration of this effect, however, is unclear. Furthermore, the effect of doomscrolling likely varies based on prior vulnerabilities for psychopathology, such as a history of childhood maltreatment. It was hypothesized that social and traditional media exposure were related to an increase in depression and PTSD and that this increase was moderated by childhood maltreatment severity.
Method
Participants completed a baseline assessment for psychopathology and 30 days of daily assessments of depression, PTSD, and pandemic-related media use.
Results
Using multilevel modeling, social media exposure was associated with increased depression and PTSD. This association was stronger for those with more severe maltreatment histories. Furthermore, those with more severe baseline psychopathology used more social media during this period. These relations were not observed for traditional media sources.
Conclusions
These results suggest that regular viewing of pandemic-related social media is associated with increases in psychopathology for those with existing vulnerabilities. Those with such vulnerabilities should adopt strategies to limit social media consumption. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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