Social media use, sleep, and psychopathology in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.
Social media use, sleep, and psychopathology in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.
- 2021
Sleep disruption among adolescents represents a major public health concern, and social media use may play an important role in affecting sleep and subsequent mental health. While prior studies of youth sleep and mental health have often focused on social media use frequency and duration, adolescents' emotional experiences related to social media have been underexplored, particularly among clinically acute populations. This study offers a preliminary investigation of associations among negative emotional experiences using social media, sleep disturbance, and clinical symptom severity in a sample of psychiatrically hospitalized youth. A sample of 243 adolescents (Mage = 15.34) completed self-report measures at a single time point. Measures assessed social media use, including frequency and duration, subjective experiences of use, and emotional responses to use, as well as sleep disturbance and clinical symptom severity, including suicidal ideation, internalizing symptoms, and attention problems. Results revealed that more frequent negative emotional responses to social media use were linked to greater sleep disturbance and higher clinical symptom severity. Furthermore, sleep disturbance mediated the relation between negative emotional responses to social media and clinical symptom severity. While gender differences were revealed in characteristics of social media use, sleep disturbance, and clinical outcomes, the associations among these constructs did not vary across gender groups. Overall, these findings highlight sleep disturbance as a potential mechanism through which negative emotional experiences on social media may impact clinical symptoms in psychiatrically vulnerable youth. Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
English
0022-3956
10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.10.014 [doi] NIHMS1751269 [mid] PMC8665029 [pmc] S0022-3956(21)00611-7 [pii]
*Adolescent, Hospitalized
*Sleep Wake Disorders
*Social Media
Adolescent
Humans
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders/ep [Epidemiology]
Suicidal Ideation
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Internal Medicine Residency
Journal Article
Sleep disruption among adolescents represents a major public health concern, and social media use may play an important role in affecting sleep and subsequent mental health. While prior studies of youth sleep and mental health have often focused on social media use frequency and duration, adolescents' emotional experiences related to social media have been underexplored, particularly among clinically acute populations. This study offers a preliminary investigation of associations among negative emotional experiences using social media, sleep disturbance, and clinical symptom severity in a sample of psychiatrically hospitalized youth. A sample of 243 adolescents (Mage = 15.34) completed self-report measures at a single time point. Measures assessed social media use, including frequency and duration, subjective experiences of use, and emotional responses to use, as well as sleep disturbance and clinical symptom severity, including suicidal ideation, internalizing symptoms, and attention problems. Results revealed that more frequent negative emotional responses to social media use were linked to greater sleep disturbance and higher clinical symptom severity. Furthermore, sleep disturbance mediated the relation between negative emotional responses to social media and clinical symptom severity. While gender differences were revealed in characteristics of social media use, sleep disturbance, and clinical outcomes, the associations among these constructs did not vary across gender groups. Overall, these findings highlight sleep disturbance as a potential mechanism through which negative emotional experiences on social media may impact clinical symptoms in psychiatrically vulnerable youth. Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
English
0022-3956
10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.10.014 [doi] NIHMS1751269 [mid] PMC8665029 [pmc] S0022-3956(21)00611-7 [pii]
*Adolescent, Hospitalized
*Sleep Wake Disorders
*Social Media
Adolescent
Humans
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders/ep [Epidemiology]
Suicidal Ideation
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Internal Medicine Residency
Journal Article