Social media can be a valuable communication tool in regards to staying informed of world news and events, maintaining contact with friends and family and other purposes such as watching videos, finding recipes, creating events, etc. While social media can be used in a positive way, it can also be used negatively.
Studies show that adolescents’ self esteem can suffer from social media misconduct. Actions such as “Facebragging,” harassment and other forms of cyberbullying can be contribute to feelings of sadness or depression. Sometimes, these actions can lead to violence or possibly death.
Knowing how to identify troublesome online behavior is essential to keeping adolescents safe – even from themselves.
#1 Impacts of self-esteem and empathy on cyber bullies, victims
This paper investigated the impacts of self-esteem and empathy on cyber bullies, victims and bystanders. Additionally, it also examined their impacts on emotional responses experienced, and actions taken by the perpetrators, victims and bystanders.
#2 Insight into the motivation of selfies
The purpose of this article is to identify the motivations associated with selfie-postings among female millennials.
#3 Teens, Social Media & Technology
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According to a Pew Research Center survey, Facebook is no longer the most popular platform among teens.
#4 Is social media contributing to the rising teen suicide rate?
Sadie Riggs, 15, had dreamed of becoming a lawyer, firefighter or veterinarian. In her freshman year of high school, kids starting making fun of her for her red hair and braces. Sadie was tormented on Facebook, Instagram and Kik, where classmates would tell her to kill herself. Her mother went to the police, contacted Instagram headquarters and even broke her phone. On June 19, Sadie hanged herself. Recent studies have shown a rise in both teen suicides and self-harm, particularly among teenage girls.
#5 Teens: This is how social media affects your brain
Researchers at UCLA’s Brain Mapping Center found that when teenagers’ photos get lots of “likes’ on social media apps, their brains respond in a similar way to seeing loved ones or winning the lottery.
#6 The psychological effects of posting, viewing selfies
Taking selfies and groupies and sharing them to social media is a popular online activity. This study aimed to examine the psychological effects of posting and viewing selfies and groupies on social media.
#7 Teens’ social media use and collective action
This article examined how collective self-esteem, social self-efficacy, and the need to belong can be used to predict teens’ use of social media.
#8 How disclaimers on social media affect body perceptions
This study examined the effects of viewing disclaimer comments attached to idealized social media images on 18- to 25-year-old American women’s body dissatisfaction, mood and perceptions.
#9 Exploring how teens use online experiences to navigate life
More and more, communication online is increasing, and teenagers are the fastest growing adopters of new platforms. Communication scholars have begun to consider young people’s experiences online, comparing online and offline interactions, establishing how developmental stages affect youth’s engagement with online content, and documenting risks for youth’s experience online.
#10 Social Media and Self Doubt
With social media, teens have the ability to show the best and most enviable moments while hiding struggles, and the merely ordinary aspects of day-to-day life. There’s evidence those images are causing stress among kids. Donna Wick, EdD, founder of Mind-to-Mind Parenting, says that for teenagers the combined weight of vulnerability, the need for validation, and a desire to compare themselves with peers forms what she describes as a “perfect storm of self-doubt.”
#11 Psychological effects from cyberbullying on adolescents
This study examined the adolescent psychological effects of face-to-face and cyberbullying, The results of this study showed how the current adolescent generation may be affected psychologically from bullying exposure through face-to-face, cyber and both mediums. (Pages 17-22)
