Social Media Addiction and Poor Mental Health: Examining the Mediating Roles of Internet Addiction and Phubbing.
Many researchers have examined the potential detrimental role of problematic social media use (often referred as 'social media addiction') on mental health. The present study investigated how social media addiction is associated with three components of mental health: depression, anxiety, and stress...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Reports Vol. 128; no. 2; pp. 723 - 744 |
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