{"id":2876,"date":"2024-02-08T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/the-effect-of-self-monitoring-limited-social-media-use-on-psychological-well-being\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:05:29","slug":"the-effect-of-self-monitoring-limited-social-media-use-on-psychological-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/the-effect-of-self-monitoring-limited-social-media-use-on-psychological-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effect of Self-Monitoring Limited Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of self-monitoring limited social media usage on psychological well-being. After completing pretest measures, 230 undergraduate students from a large Midwestern university were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions: either limit their social media usage to 30 min a day or to use social media as usual. After 2 weeks of limiting, the self-monitored group showed significant improvements in their psychological well-being. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, fear of missing out, and negative affect decreased while positive affect increased. These results suggest that limiting social media usage may improve psychological well-being on multiple dimensions. This study is one of the first to experimentally investigate feasible alternatives to social media use abstinence or experimenter-managed limitation. Future studies could investigate motivations and mechanisms of social media use through qualitative explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tmb.apaopen.org\/pub\/yvcb5y06\/release\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tmb.apaopen.org\/pub\/yvcb5y06\/release\/1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of self-monitoring limited social media usage on psychological well-being. After completing pretest measures, 230 undergraduate students from a large Midwestern university were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions: either limit their social media usage to 30 min a day or to use social media&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[142,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-systems-el","category-social-media-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/images.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-Ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}