Research Question: How materialism on social media has an effect on mental health

Subject Search

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Moldes, O., & Ku, L. (2020). Materialistic cues make us miserable: a meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being. Psychology & Marketing, 37(10), 1396–1419. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mar.21387

Subject Term: Consumer Culture

Using consumer culture as my subject term I had 2,677 results. I then added full text and subject term limiters. This brought my results down to 354. Despite this search being fairly large, it brought up a few interesting abstracts and other subject terms after skimming through the first few pages. I wish I could limit this search even more but I was not sure whether adding another subject term would prove beneficial.

Citation Trace

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Chu, S.-C., Windels, K., & Kamal, S. (2016). The influence of self-construal and materialism on social media intensity: a study of China and the United States. International Journal of Advertising, 35(3), 569–588. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650487.2015.1068425

There were 70 references on the list of this article regarding the influence of self-construal and materialism on social media intensity. After forward tracing my citation it found 5 articles that cited my article (Chu 2016).  Out of the 5, three of them had potential good information within their articles. I do feel like forward tracing a few of these articles would add great information for my research proposal.