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Todayje Snell

Lacee Nisbett
ENG 102-
26 February 2019

How does social media really affect mental health?

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Annotated Bibliography

Sangeorzan, Irina, et al. “Research Paper: Exploring the Experiences of People Vlogging about

Severe Mental Illness on YouTube: An Interpretative Phenomenological

Analysis.” Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 246, Mar. 2019, pp. 422–

428. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.119.

Found through SCOUT databases; I searched keywords: YouTube effects AND mental health.

This article speaks about how YouTubers use their vlogs as therapy to deal with their problems.

It also gave a look from one specific social media platform. It showed the ups and downs of

publicizing mental health issues. They also used a test (interpretative phenomenological analysis)

on several different YouTube channels to show the benefits of using vlogs as therapy.

This article did not show any obvious biases. They gave their findings from research and

experiments they did. I think I still need to dig a little deeper to find my answers to my research

question. This article was a very great start and find.

Barry, Christopher T., et al. “Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health from Adolescent

and Parent Perspectives.” Journal of Adolescence, vol. 61, Dec. 2017, pp. 1–

11. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.08.005.

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Found through SCOUT databases. I made my search a little broader, I searched Social Media

effects AND mental health. This article discusses the difference between adolescent and parental

reports of teenage social media use and its relation to adolescent psychosocial adjustment.

I did find some bias in this article. This article seemed to favor more with the parental point of

view, even though they made a point to use more adolescent reports than parental reports. The

focus was primarily put on how the parent’s thought their child was affected using popular social

media sites and apps. Most of the parents talked about the same issues. They explained how their

child experienced more symptoms of depression and anxiety after being on social media. Overall

it was a great read and can be extremely useful for my research.