Journal article
Tracking effects of problematic social networking on adolescent psychopathology: The mediating role of sleep disruptions
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Vol.In press, pp.1-15
2016
Abstract
Concerns are growing about adolescents’ problematic social networking and possible links to depressed mood and externalizing behavior. Yet there remains little understanding of underlying processes that may account for these associations, including the mediating role of sleep disruption. This study tests this putative mediating process and examines change in problematic social networking investment and disrupted sleep, in relation to change in depressed mood and externalizing behavior. A sample of 874 students (41% male; 57.2% Caucasian; baseline M age = 14.4 years) from 27 high schools were surveyed. Participants’ problematic social networking, sleep disruption, and psychopathology (depressed mood, externalizing behaviors) were measured annually over 3 years. Longitudinal mediation was tested using latent trajectories of problematic social networking use, sleep disruption, and psychopathology. Both problematic social networking and sleep disruption underwent positive linear growth over time. Adolescents who increasingly invested in social networking reported increased depressed mood, with around 53% of this association explained by the indirect effect of increased sleep disruptions. Further, adolescents who increasingly invested in social networking also reported increased externalizing behavior; some of this relation was explained (13%) via increased sleep disruptions. However an alternative model in which increased externalizing was associated with increased social networking, mediated by sleep disruptions, indicated a reciprocal relation of similar magnitude. It is important for parents, teachers, and psychologists to minimize the negative effects of social networking on adolescents’ psychopathology. Interventions should potentially target promoting healthy sleep habits through reductions in social networking investment and rescheduling usage away from bedtime.
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- Title
- Tracking effects of problematic social networking on adolescent psychopathology: The mediating role of sleep disruptions
- Authors/Creators
- L. Vernon (Author/Creator)K.L. Modecki (Author/Creator)B.L. Barber (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Vol.In press, pp.1-15
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005541812607891
- Copyright
- © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.185 Communication
- 6.185.1004 Digital Media Impact
- Web Of Science research areas
- Psychology, Clinical
- Psychology, Developmental
- ESI research areas
- Psychiatry/Psychology