Social media addiction and burnout: The mediating roles of envy and social media use anxiety
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Social media addiction and burnout: The mediating roles of envy and social media use anxiety Chang Liu 1 & Jianling Ma 2
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Abstract Although prior studies have to some extent clarified the mechanism underlying the development of social media burnout, the present study contributes to the literature by showing how social media addiction contributes to this phenomenon. Chinese university students (N = 519) completed self-report questionnaires on social media addiction, social media burnout, envy, and social media use anxiety. The results showed that addiction, envy, and social media use anxiety were all significant predictors of burnout. Moreover, envy and social media use anxiety mediated the relationship between social media addiction and burnout, both in parallel and as a pair in series. Considering the negative effect of social media burnout such as depression, the findings may provide new path to understand the detrimental of excessive use of social media toward corresponding psychological outcomes. Keywords Social media . Burnout . Addiction . Anxiety . Envy . Social comparison
Introduction With the rapid development of information and telecommunications technology, modern social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have already revolutionized peoples’ ways of contacting and communicating with one another. Numerous studies have already provided evidence that social media have brought benefits to their users with respect to their psychological well-being, such as improvements in selfesteem and quality of life. It is not surprising that social media play an indispensable role in many people’s lives today. However, excessive use of social media also has invisible and potentially detrimental effects, such as poor sleep quality (Garett et al. 2018; Xanidis and Brignell 2016; Woods and Scott 2016; Tian et al. 2016; Levenson et al. 2016; Adams and Kisler 2013), lower subjective happiness (Satici and Uysal 2016; * Jianling Ma [email protected] Chang Liu [email protected] 1
Yangtze Normal University, JuXian Road, FuLing District, Chongqing 408100, China
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Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongwen Road, Nan’ an District, Chongqing 400615, China
Pittman and Reich 2016; de Vries and Kühne 2015; Uysal et al. 2013; Utz and Beukeboom 2011), a decline in academic performance (Sobaih et al. 2016; Alt 2015; Junco 2012), and undesirable emotional consequences, such as anxiety and depression (Seabrook et al. 2016). The present study contributes to this area of research by showing that excessive use of social media leads to social media burnout, and by elucidating the mediating roles of envy and social media use anxiety in this relationship. Understanding and resolving the issue of social media fatigue or burnout is of vital importance since there are evidence that social media burnout is associated with negative psychological well-being such as depression and anxiety (Dhir et al. 2018). Moreover, for any social media company ai
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