Problematic Social Media Use and Social Connectedness in Adolescence: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Family Life S
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Problematic Social Media Use and Social Connectedness in Adolescence: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Family Life Satisfaction Mustafa Savci 1 & Muhammed Akat 2 & Mustafa Ercengiz 3 & Mark D. Griffiths 4 Ferda Aysan 5
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Accepted: 7 October 2020/ # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract
Problematic social media use (PSMU) among adolescents has become an area of increasing research interest in recent years. It is known that PSMU is negatively associated with social connectedness. The present study examined the role of family life satisfaction in this relationship by investigating its mediating and moderating role in the relationship between problematic social use and social connectedness. The present study comprised 549 adolescents (296 girls and 253 boys) who had used social media for at least 1 year and had at least one social media account. The measures used included the Social Media Disorder Scale, Social Connectedness Scale, and Family Life Satisfaction Scale. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed using Hayes’s Process program. Regression analysis showed that PSMU negatively predicted family life satisfaction and social connectedness. In addition, family life satisfaction and PSMU predicted social connectedness. Mediation analysis showed that family life satisfaction had a significant mediation effect in the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. Family life satisfaction was partially mediated in the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. Moderation analysis showed that family life satisfaction did not have a significant effect on the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. The study suggests that family life satisfaction is a meaningful mediator (but not a moderator) in the relationship between problematic social media use and social connectedness. Keywords Problematic social media use . Social networking . Social connectedness . Family life satisfaction . Mediation analysis . Moderation analysis . Adolescence Over the past 20 years, Internet use has grown in most countries worldwide and has become an important tool in almost every aspect of an individual’s day-to-day lives. The Internet can be
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used for many different activities including (among other things) communicating, having fun, learning, gaming, shopping, and gambling (Castellacci and Vinas-Bardolet 2019; Gross 2004; Yavuz 2019). One of the most popular activities on the Internet is social networking, and more generally social media use in all its many forms. Social media applications such as Facebook and Instagram provide the opportunity to meet different people by creating personal profiles, and facilitates the personal communicating, sharing, and expressing of ideas about an event or situation with others in different places globally (Griffiths et al. 2014; Treem et al. 2016). Social networking has increased the prevalence of online us
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