TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ugwu, Lawrence Ejike
AU  - Idemudia, Erhabor Sunday
AU  - Chukwu, Olive O
AU  - Onyedibe, Maria Chidi Christiana
TI  - Measuring the Impact of Social Media on Young People's Mental Health: Development and Validation of the Social Media-Induced Tendency Scale.
JO  - Depression research and treatment
VL  - Volume 2023
SN  - 2090-1321
CY  - New York, NY [u.a.]
PB  - Hindawi
M1  - DKFZ-2023-01158
SP  - Article ID 8677521
PY  - 2023
N1  - #LA:C110# / Volume 2023 | Article ID 8677521
AB  - Social media use has been linked to adverse health outcomes such as depression. To facilitate interventions, understanding the varied causes of depression is necessary. The authors developed a social media-induced depression tendency (SMIDT) scale for use with young people and aimed to validate it for young people in Nigeria. The study was conducted in three parts using an online survey (Google Forms) with purposive sampling targeting young people. Study 1 was an exploratory study that developed the SMIDT scale with 361 young people aged 16 to 26 years (mean age = 22.81). A concise measure of SMIDT was obtained. In study 2, confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the SMIDT with young people aged 17 to 25 years (mean age = 23.61). Construct, discriminant, and concurrent validities were established, and three factors were identified (sensitivity/attention seeking, worthlessness, and escapism/reality avoidance), which explained 55.87
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:37305812
C2  - pmc:PMC10256438
DO  - DOI:10.1155/2023/8677521
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/276777
ER  -