1. Remind us of your search topic

My research topic focuses on how social media usage amongst teens can lead to cyberbullying, low self-esteem and mental disorders.

2. Document the search using the same detail you used previously. Exactly what search did you conduct in which database, and how many results did you get?

Search 1:
Database Use: Academic Search Premier
 Search terms and Restrictions: Teenagers AND usage or use or utilization
Number of returns: 1,131
Annotated Bibliography#1

Bellmore, A. (2021). Is Peer Victimization Associated With Adolescents’ Social Media Use, Engagement, Behavior, and Content? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 67(2), 1–29.

This source asks the question of whether or not peer victimization in the real world affects a teen’s online involvement on Twitter. 307 troubled high-schoolers were monitored and the results showed that they spent fewer minutes per day on Twitter, feel less attached to Twitter, and Tweet less in general about social relationships in particular. What can be gathered from this study is that teens who are alienated by their peers in society are reluctant to engage in cyber relationships with them…due to alienation.

Search 2:
Database Use: Academic Search Premier
Search terms and Restrictions: Cyberbullying in schools
Number of returns: 388
Annotated Bibliography#2

Wang, C.-W., Musumari, P. M., Techasrivichien, T., Suguimoto, S. P., Chan, C.-C., Ono-Kihara, M., Kihara, M., & Nakayama, T. (2019). “I felt angry, but I couldn’t do anything about it”: a qualitative study of cyberbullying among Taiwanese high school students. BMC Public Health, 19(1), N.PAG. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1186/s12889-019-7005-9

The authors stressed the exclusion, which may be a type of cyberbullying unique to the Asian context, causes a sense of isolation, helplessness, or hopelessness, even producing mental health effects in the victims because people place the utmost importance on interpersonal harmony due to the Confucian values in collectivistic Asian societies. More this study revealed reasons for cyberbullying that also potentially reflect the collectivistic values of Asian societies. These reasons included fun, discrimination, jealousy, revenge, and punishment of peers who broke school or social norms. And because of this the authors stressed that some schools want to monitor the social media activity of its pupil so that school administrators can be informed of which students are bulling other students.

Search 3:
Database Use: Academic Search Premier
 Search terms and Restrictions: Parental involvement in social media
Number of returns: 196
Annotated Bibliography#3

MacPhee, D., & Fritz, J. (1996). Ethnic Variations in Personal Social Networks and Parenting. Child Development, 67(6), 3278–3295. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.2307/1131779

This study investigates ethnic variations in social network influence on parenting amongst American Indian, Whites, and Hispanic parents. The study concluded that Indians have social networks governed by frequent interchanges with an interconnected web of kin; Hispanic parents to have large, close-knit networks but a smaller number of resources upon whom they relied for emotional support; and White parents to have structurally diffuse but emotionally supportive networks. But what does this mean? It means that half of a child’s rearing ( when close kin is away) is influenced by his/her external peer group.

Search 4:
Database Use: Academic Search Premier
 Search terms and Restrictions: Social media AND body image
Number of returns: 54
Annotated Bibliography#4

Reference: Wick, M. R., & Keel, P. K. (2020). Posting edited photos of the self: Increasing eating disorder risk or harmless behavior? International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53(6), 864–872. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1002/eat.23263

The present study sought to determine how posting edited photos relates to disordered eating (aka eating disorders) , as well as anxiety and depression symptoms, in male and female college students. This study is interesting because it demonstrates how unrealistic beauty standards in the form of photoshopped celebrities or stick-thin fashion models and influencers can brainwash teens into believing that one body type is norm.

Search 5:
Database Use: Academic Search Premier
 Search terms and Restrictions: Instagram AND self-esteem
Number of returns: 10
Annotated Bibliography#5

Jabłońska, M. R., & Zajdel, R. (2020). Artificial neural networks for predicting social comparison effects among female Instagram users. PLoS ONE, 15(2), 1–18. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1371/journal.pone.0229354

This study first investigates the possible links between life satisfaction, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and the intensity of Instagram use with a social comparison model. In this study by Jabłońska & Zajdel , 974 women age 18–49 who were Instagram users voluntarily participated, completing a questionnaire. The results suggest associations between the analyzed psychological data and social comparison types. Afterwards artificial neural networks models (neural networks are simple models of the way the nervous system operates. ) were implemented to predict the type of
response that women would give when they compared themselves to other women on Instagram.
The artificial neural networks models were able to properly predict that between 71% and 82% of cases.

Have I reached saturation?
Somewhat because the databases have a plethora of interconnected articles on how social medium, which is form of social psychology, can interfere with the mental health of young adults.