Active Social Media Use and Its Impact on Well-being: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Posting Pictures on Instagram

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dc.contributor.authorKrause, Hannes-Vincent
dc.contributor.authorgroße Deters, Fenne
dc.contributor.authorBaumann, Annika
dc.contributor.authorKrasnova, Hanna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T16:17:29Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T16:17:29Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractActive use of social networking sites (SNSs) has long been assumed to benefit users’ well-being. However, this established hypothesis is increasingly being challenged, with scholars criticizing its lack of empirical support and the imprecise conceptualization of active use. Nevertheless, with considerable heterogeneity among existing studies on the hypothesis and causal evidence still limited, a final verdict on its robustness is still pending. To contribute to this ongoing debate, we conducted a week-long randomized control trial with N = 381 adult Instagram users recruited via Prolific. Specifically, we tested how active SNS use, operationalized as picture postings on Instagram, affects different dimensions of well-being. The results depicted a positive effect on users’ positive affect but null findings for other well-being outcomes. The findings broadly align with the recent criticism against the active use hypothesis and support the call for a more nuanced view on the impact of SNSs.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. 16DII127 (“Deutsches Internet-Institut”) and grant no. 16DII131 (“Weizenbaum-Insitut e.V.”).
dc.identifier.citationHannes-Vincent Krause, Fenne große Deters, Annika Baumann, Hanna Krasnova, Active social media use and its impact on well-being — an experimental study on the effects of posting pictures on Instagram, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2023, zmac037, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac037
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/458
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectsocial networking sites
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectInstagram
dc.subjectwell-being
dc.subjectexperiment
dc.subjectrandomized control trial
dc.titleActive Social Media Use and Its Impact on Well-being: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Posting Pictures on Instagram
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumberzmac037
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1093/jcmc/zmac037
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume28
local.researchgroupWohlbefinden in der digitalen Welt
local.researchtopicDigitale Technologien in der Gesellschaft
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