For this search, I used the same databases I have in the past. Those being Communication and Mass Media Complete and PsychArticles. To dive in deeper into the research this week, I will be including Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection and Social Sciences Full-Texts

• Search 1: Social Sciences Full-Text
  • Social media AND mental health AND young adults; limiters: peer reviewed, academic journal, article, published since 2009
  • I got 54 results from this search
  • I found several interesting results, but the one I chose to look into was Associations between Comparison on Social Media and Depressive Symptoms: A Study of Young Parents (Sidani, 2020).
  • Subject terms: Psychology of parents; Social Media; Mental depression; social comparison; parenting; parent-child relationships; mental health; social skills; socioeconomic factors; adverse childhood experiences; mental health of young adults; symptoms; confidence intervals; questionnaires; logistic regression analysis; odds ratio.
• Search 2: Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • Mental health AND social media AND children; limiters: peer reviewed, article, PDF full text, published since 2004
  • 50 results came up from this search
  • This search gave me several similar articles as I have seen before, but one finally caught my eye. Screen time, social media, and developing brains: a cause for good or corrupting young minds? (Dubicka, Martin, & Firth, 2019).
  • subject terms: brain physiology; adolescence; child development; debate; internet; mental health; serial publications; social media; computer screens & health.
• Search 3: Communication and Mass Media Collection
  • mental health AND social media AND teens; limiters: full text, peer-reviews.
  • I know it is outside the range, but this search had 4 results…
  • Despite only having four results, I found a rather interesting article that might contribute to my research, Twitter City and Facebook Village: teenage girls’ personas and experiences influenced by choice architecture and social networking sites (Binns, 2014).
  • subject terms:online social networks; internet & teenagers; behavior; computer systems design and related services; internet publishing and broadcasting and web search portals; teenage girls; web design; persuasive technology; facebook; twitter.

Sidani, J. E., Shensa, A., Escobar-Viera, C. G., & Primack, B. A. (2020). Associations between Comparison on Social Media and Depressive Symptoms: A Study of Young Parents. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 29(12), 3357–3368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01805-2

Dubicka, B., Martin, J., & Firth, J. (2019). Editorial: Screen time, social media and developing brains: a cause for good or corrupting young minds? Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 24(3), 203–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12346

Binns, A. (2014). Twitter City and Facebook Village: teenage girls’ personas and experiences influenced by choice architecture in social networking sites. Journal of Media Practice, 15(2), 71–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2014.960763