Given how strongly social media is permeating young people’s everyday lives, many of them have formed strong habits that, under specific circumstances, can spiral out of control and bring harmful experiences. Unlike in extant literature where habitual and compulsive behaviors are often conflated, we report findings from a two-wave panel study examining the individual predictive value of both habitual and compulsive social media use on connection overload (i.e., information and communication overload) and sleep quality. Longitudinal structural equation modeling reveals that only compulsive social media use is related to enhanced feelings of connection overload and to poorer sleep, whereas habitual social media use had no significant associations with either indicator over time. These differential findings highlight a conceptual imperative for future approaches to further clarify the nature of people’s media habits to prevent spurious (and potentially overpathologizing) conclusions.

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两个概念的故事：关于连接超载和睡眠质量的习惯性和强迫性社交媒体使用的差异时间预测

鉴于社交媒体对年轻人日常生活的渗透程度如此之高，他们中的许多人已经养成了强烈的习惯，在特定情况下，这些习惯可能会失控并带来有害的体验。与经常将习惯性和强迫性行为混为一谈的现有文献不同，我们报告了一项双波小组研究的结果，该研究检验了习惯性和强迫性社交媒体使用对连接超载（即信息和通信超载）和睡眠质量的个体预测价值. 纵向结构方程模型显示，只有强迫性社交媒体使用与连接过载感觉增强和睡眠质量下降有关，而习惯性社交媒体使用与这两个指标随时间推移均无显着关联。