Social Media Use and Health and Well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth: Systematic Review
Berger MN, Taba M, Marino JL, Lim MSC, Skinner SR
Journal of medical Internet research · 84 citas
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- Revisión sistemática (indexado por PubMed)
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- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
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- Financiación independiente
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Publicación
- Publicado
- 2022-08-29 · J Med Internet Res · vol. 24 · número 9 · pág. e38449
- Editorial
- JMIR Publications
- Citado
- 223 citas · más que el 99% de estudios similares · 7.4× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 68 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Mental Health via Writing
- Palabras clave
- social media use, LGBTQ youth, mental health, well-being, identity construction, social support, peer connection, identity management, disclosure, anonymity, discrimination, victimization, heteronormativity, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, adolescents, young adults, queer youth, transgender youth, gender nonconforming youth, social media affordances, social media policy
- MeSH
- humans, sexual behavior, gender identity, adolescent, female, male, social media, transgender persons, sexual and gender minorities
5 autores
- Matthew N. Berger🇦🇺The University of Sydney; Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Melody Taba🇦🇺The University of Sydney; Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Jennifer L. Marino🇦🇺The University of Sydney; Royal Women's Hospital; The University of Melbourne; Children's Hospital at Westmead; Murdoch Children's Research Institute
- Megan S. C. Lim🇦🇺Burnet Institute; The University of Melbourne; Monash University
- Susan Rachel Skinner🇦🇺The University of Sydney; Children's Hospital at Westmead; Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Resumen
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Background
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals are at higher risk of poor mental health and well-being. Social media platforms can provide LGBTQ youths with a space that counters heteronormative environments and potentially supports mental health and well-being. Mental health includes an individual's state of psychological and emotional well-being and not merely the absence of mental disorders.
Objective
We sought to identify how LGBTQ youths and adolescents use social media for connection with other LGBTQ peers and groups, identity development, and social support and how these affect mental health and well-being.
Methods
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) procedures were used to guide this review. Searches were conducted in ACM Digital Library, CINAHL, Ovid Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, and Web of Science in March 2021. This review focused on LGBTQ youths aged 10 to 24 years. Included peer-reviewed studies must comprise social media; explore peer connection, identity development, or social support; and be published from 2012 onward. In total, 2 researchers extracted data and performed quality assessments independently using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for quantitative articles and the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme for qualitative articles. Qualitative synthesis was performed on articles that satisfied the eligibility criteria.
Results
A total of 26 studies (n=15, 58% qualitative; n=8, 31% quantitative; n=3, 12% mixed methods) met the inclusion criteria. Of the 8 quantitative studies, 6 (75%) were cross-sectional, and 2 (25%) were cohort studies. All studies ranged from moderate to high quality. Social media was a popular tool used by LGBTQ youths to connect with LGBTQ communities. In qualitative data, we found that LGBTQ youths negotiated and explored identity and obtained support from peers on social media. Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter were commonly used to access LGBTQ content owing to ease of anonymity. Identity management was the most studied social media affordance, important to LGBTQ youths for strategic disclosure. Key strategies for managing identities included being anonymous, censoring locations or content, restricting audiences, and using multiple accounts. Quantitative studies (3/8, 38%) showed that social media was associated with reduced mental health concerns and increased well-being among LGBTQ youths. Mental health concerns arising from social media use were attributed to discrimination, victimization, and policies that did not accommodate changed identities.
Conclusions
We found that social media may support the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ youths through peer connection, identity management, and social support, but findings were limited by weaknesses in the evidence. More robust and longitudinal studies are needed to determine the relationship between social media use and LGBTQ mental health, particularly among adolescents. The findings may inform interventions to promote social media health literacy and the mental health and well-being of this vulnerable group.
Trial registration
PROSPERO CRD42020222535; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=222535.
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