Purpose

We aim to investigate youth insight about how their social media use affects them. We hope to understand if and how they self-modulate their use.

Methods

Using a text message-based platform, codable survey responses were returned by a minimum of 871 of 1,144 youth aged 14-24 in November, 2020. Youth were asked the following three questions: (1) What advice would you give to young people who are new to social media? (2) Have you ever felt like you need to change your social media use (what you view, time spent, etc.)? Why? (3) Have you ever deleted or thought about deleting your social media account(s)? Why? A codebook was created from the data and two coders independently coded the entirety of the data set using the 18-code codebook. Coders resolved discrepancies in coding patterns together and the frequency of each code was recorded.

Results

Youth showed insight about negative impacts of social media and were especially concerned about safety on social media. A majority of respondents deleted or thought about deleting their social media account or app. Youth were more likely to report wanting to change the amount of time spent on their social media compared to the content they view.

Discussion

Youth are aware of ways in which social media could be negatively impacting them and they have employed methods to modulate their use because of this awareness.

中文翻译：

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关于社交媒体对健康/不良和自我调节努力的影响的青年洞察力

目的

我们旨在调查青少年对社交媒体使用如何影响他们的洞察力。我们希望了解它们是否以及如何自我调节其使用。

方法

2020 年 11 月，在 1,144 名 14-24 岁的青少年中，至少有 871 人使用基于短信的平台返回了可编码的调查回复。青少年被问到以下三个问题：（1）您会给那些是社交媒体的新手吗？(2) 你有没有觉得你需要改变你的社交媒体使用方式（你的观点、花费的时间等）？为什么？(3) 您是否曾经删除或考虑过删除您的社交媒体帐户？为什么？从数据中创建了一个码本，两名编码员使用 18 码码本独立地对整个数据集进行编码。编码员一起解决编码模式的差异，并记录每个编码的频率。

结果

青少年对社交媒体的负面影响表现出洞察力，并特别关注社交媒体的安全性。大多数受访者删除或考虑删除他们的社交媒体帐户或应用程序。与他们查看的内容相比，年轻人更有可能表示希望改变他们在社交媒体上花费的时间。

讨论

青少年意识到社交媒体可能对他们产生负面影响的方式，并且由于这种意识，他们已经采用了一些方法来调整他们的使用。