Depression, Anxiety and Addiction Related to Social Media

Tabassum Nauman; Nauman Q. Godfrey

Abstract:

Abstract: The article seeks to better understand the negative effects associated with the intensive use of digital communication technologies: addiction and "addiction" to the Internet, depressive symptoms and anxieties associated with social networks and the practice of media multitasking, fear of missing out (FOMO), perception of stressful ghost signals and nomophobia related to the smartphone. In a transdisciplinary perspective, the article analyzes the psychological and psychosocial processes, major effects and determinants of phenomena involving negative effects and intensive uses of digital communication. Finally, it opens up new perspectives and research hypotheses

research from:

• Foundation University College of Dentistry

Year:

2019

Type of Publication:

Article

Journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD

Volume:

5

Number:

6

Pages:

250-256

Month:

6