An observational study in Mental Health Issue, Mental Health Wellness 1 and Mental Health Wellness 2, sponsored by Yale-NUS College. Completed at 1 site in Singapore. Open to participants aged 21 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-10.
Sponsored by Yale-NUS College · Observational
In the last decade, research on social media and mental health has produced mixed results. Overall, the current findings suggest that the negative effects on mental health are exacerbated by longer and more frequent social media usage, whereas the positive effects are bolstered when social media is used to connect with other people.
With the largest number of global users, Facebook is the most frequently studied social media network. Over the past few years, the increasing concerns about the risks associated with Facebook have even translated to wider pop culture conversations, as exemplified by the 2020 documentary The Social Dilemma. In response, Facebook has rolled out a series of features supposed to mitigate these risks and encourage responsible social media usage. These features include activity trackers and reminders, unfollow and snooze buttons, and data sharing regulators. Currently, there is no research done to address whether (1) these features are used at all, and (2) whether they are successful in moderating the negative mental health consequences of Facebook usage.
This study seeks to address the gap in literature through a survey done on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).
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Recruiting a representative sample of 740 people on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).
Exclusion Criteria
Mental Health Scores
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), (measured on a 4 point scale: min = 0, max = 3; higher scores indicating higher depression, anxiety and/or stress).
Time frame: Once during the survey.
Plan to share: No — Yale-NUS College regulations do not allow the sharing of private participant information.
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