Social Media Habits Research Articles

Evaluation of Using Visual and Social Media and Nutritional Habits for University Staff's

Bireyler sağlık ve beslenme ile ilgili konuları özellikle yazılı ve görsel medya aracılığı ile takip etmektedirler. Bu takip kişilerin dünyaya bakış açılarını, duygularını, tavırlarını etkileyebilmekte ve değiştirebilmektedir. Bu çalışmada 207 üniversite personelinin beslenme alışkanlıkları ile görsel, sosyal medya ve kitle iletişim araçlarına karşı tutum ve davranışlarının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada idari personelin beden kütle indeksi ortalaması 26,9, akademik personelin beden kütle indeksi ortalaması 25,4 olup akademik ve idari personelin beden kütle indeksi ortalamaları arasında istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı farklılık bulunmuştur. Akademik personelin %62,9’unun idari personelin %80,6’sının günde üç öğün ile beslendiği, akademik personelin %75,0’inin, idari personelin %71,6’sının klasik kahvaltı yaptığı, akademik personelin %42,9’unun idari personelin %71,6’sının öğle yemeğini okul yemek hanesinde yediği ve akademik personelin %55,0’inin idari personelin %43,3’ünün bazen ara öğün yaptığı tespit edilmiştir. Akademik ve idari personelin sosyal medya ve kitle iletişim araçlarına karşı tutum ve davranışları benzerlik göstermekte olup, gıdalarla ilgili yayın ve reklamlardan etkilenmedikleri, güvenli bulmadıkları ve sağlıklı beslenmeye dikkat ettikleri sonucuna varılmıştır.

Taking a nuanced look at adolescent technology use and negative affect: the protective role of preparedness.

Adolescents are online more than any other age group, with the majority of their time on social media. Increases in technology use among adolescents have heightened conversations regarding its effects on their negative affect. There have been mixed findings regarding the relationship between technology use and adolescent negative affect; some studies present a negative association or no association, and some show a positive association. To clarify this relationship, we propose moving away from asking only how much adolescents use technology to asking how and what they use it for. We employed the Multidimensional Healthy Technology Use and Social Media Habits Scale (MTECH) and adapted forms of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in a sample of 7,234 middle and high school students to assess the extent to which students feel prepared to use technology safely and successfully and whether this impacts the association between the amount of various types of technology they use and their negative affect. We conducted eight moderated regression analyses that, in some models, revealed preparedness had a protective role in the association between technology use and negative affect. In these models, at all levels of technology use, adolescents with higher levels of preparedness experienced lower levels of negative affect than their peers; however, in some instances, this effect was diminished for those using technology with high frequency. These findings support the notion that the association between technology and negative affect is not best modeled as a direct relationship, and instead that we must consider important moderators of this complex association.

Exploring Social Media Preferences for Healthy Weight Management Interventions Among Adolescents of Color: Mixed Methods Study.

Social media holds promise as an intervention platform to engage youths in healthy weight management and target racial inequities in obesity. This mixed methods study aimed to examine social media habits, preferences, and obesity-related behaviors (eg, diet and physical activity) among adolescents of color and understand preferences for healthy weight management interventions delivered via social media. This mixed methods study is comprised of a cross-sectional web-based survey and a series of digital focus groups. Study participants (English-speaking youths of color ages 14-18 years) were recruited from high schools and youth-based community settings in Massachusetts and California. For surveys, participants were invited to complete an anonymous web-based survey assessing self-reported sociodemographics, social media habits and preferences, health behaviors (diet, physical activity, sleep, and screen time), and height and weight. For focus groups, participants were invited to participate in 45- to 60-minute web-based group discussions assessing social media habits, preferred social media platforms, and preferences for physical activity and nutrition intervention content and delivery. Survey data were analyzed descriptively; focus group transcripts were analyzed using a directed content analysis approach. A total of 101 adolescents completed the survey and 20 adolescents participated in a total of 3 focus groups. Participants reported most frequently using TikTok, followed by Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter; preference for platform varied by purpose of use (eg, content consumption, connection, or communication). TikTok emerged as the platform of choice as an engaging way to learn about various topics, including desired health information on physical fitness and diet. Findings from this study suggest that social media platforms can be an engaging way to reach adolescents of color. Data will inform future social media-based interventions to engage adolescents of color in healthy weight management content.

Postgraduate-Year-1 Residents' Perceptions of Social Media and Virtual Applicant Recruitment: Cross-sectional Survey Study.

The dissemination of information about residency programs is a vital step in residency recruitment. Traditional methods of distributing information have been printed brochures, websites, in-person interviews, and increasingly, social media. Away rotations and in-person interviews were cancelled, and interviews were virtual for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of our study was to describe postgraduate-year-1 (PGY1) residents' social media habits in regard to residency recruitment and their perceptions of the residency programs' social media accounts in light of the transition to virtual interviews. A web-based 33-question survey was developed to evaluate personal social media use, perceptions of social media use by residency programs, and perceptions of the residency program content. Surveys were sent in 2021 to PGY1 residents at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota who participated in the 2020-2021 interview cycle. Of the 31 program directors contacted, 22 (71%) provided permission for their residents to complete the survey. Of 219 residents who received the survey, 67 (30%) completed the survey. Most respondents applied to a single specialty, and greater than 61% (41/67) of respondents applied to more than 30 programs. The social media platforms used most regularly by the respondents were Instagram (42/67, 63%), Facebook (36/67, 54%), and Twitter (22/67, 33%). Respondents used the program website (66/67, 99%), residents (47/67, 70%), and social media (43/67, 64%) as the most frequent resources to research programs. The most commonly used social media platforms to research programs were Instagram (38/66, 58%), Twitter (22/66, 33%), and Doximity (20/66, 30%). The type of social media post ranked as most interesting by the respondents was "resident life outside of the hospital." In addition, 68% (39/57) of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their perception of a program was positively influenced by the residency program's social media account. In this multispecialty survey of PGY1 residents participating in the 2020-2021 virtual interview season, respondents preferred Instagram to Twitter or Facebook for gathering information on prospective residency programs. In addition, the program website, current residents, and social media platforms were the top-ranked resources used by prospective applicants. Having an up-to-date website and robust social media presence, particularly on Instagram, may become increasingly important in the virtual interview environment.

How Mass Public Shooters Use Social Media: Exploring Themes and Future Directions

This mixed-methods study examines social media use among public mass shooters in the United States as an extension of a comprehensive database of 170 mass shooters from 1966 to 2021. Here, we report findings from a systematic content analysis of public data and detailed timelines that were constructed for 44 mass shooters’ social media habits and changes to those habits during the period of time leading up to their shooting. The paper also presents as a case study, a sentiment analysis, and term-linkage network for one perpetrator’s total 3,000 tweets. Several themes were found in the data—there were shooters who changed their posting habits and in some cases, stopped using social media entirely in the lead up to their crime; shooters who used hate speech and were “radicalized” to violence online; shooters with a demonstrable interest in violence, who referenced past mass shooters in their own communications; shooters who exhibited signs of mental illness and suicidality; shooters who were already known to authorities; and shooters who like those described above, actively posted while shooting, presumably to boost their own celebrity status. The findings from this study provide insight into commonalities among mass shooters in terms of their social media usage, which could lead to new pathways for prevention and intervention.

Utilization patterns of social media platforms for learning purposes among emergency medicine residents in Saudi Arabia

Background: Digital platforms' usage in medical education is pivotal worldwide. Despite the benefits and hazards of social media use in emergency medicine (EM) education, little is known about young medical residents\' attitudes and social media habits whe n they begin their EM careers. Objectives: The study aimed to estimate the utilization rates of different social media platforms for educational purposes by EM residents in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A focused revisit of this relationship between hand size and ventilation performance through manikin simulation testing of 122 emergency medical services professionals in Maryland evaluated the ventilator parameters of breath rate (BR), tidal volume (TV), and MV. Results: A total of 110 EM residents participated in the study. Data showed that the most used platforms for professional purposes were medical applications (29.1%), WhatsApp, and YouTube (20.0% and 16.4%), and the least used application was Instagram (0.9%). Medical applications were the most utilized platform for knowledge searching (61.8%). More than half of the participants (55.5%) believe that social media's impact on their knowledge and clinical skills is high/very high. There was no significant difference between males and females regarding the utilization pattern of social media platforms. Conclusion: EM residents consider social media a vital source of knowledge and skills required for their practice. Residents are aware of the benefits and harms of the professional use of social media platforms for medical education.

Influence of Social Media Usage on Study Habits of Undergraduates in North Central Nigeria: Implications for Counselling

The study investigated the influence of social media usage on study habits of undergraduates in North Central Nigeria: Implications for counselling. Four objectives and research questions guided the study and four hypotheses were formulated. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design. The population for this study comprises 13,292, 400 level students from four Federal Universities in North Central Nigeria. The sample size for the study was 388 400 level students who were drawn using proportionate stratified and accidental sampling techniques. Two instruments, a structured questionnaire titled “Social Media and Study Habits Questionnaire” (SMSHQ) and a semi-structured interview were used for data collection). The instruments were validated by experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was established using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded a coefficient of 0.71. Data collected for the study were analyzed using Means and Standard Deviation to answer the research questions while Chi-Square Goodness of Fit was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that, Facebook usage, Twitter usage and Instagram usage have no significant influence on the study habits of undergraduates in North Central Nigeria. WhatsApp usage was however found to significantly influence the study habits of the undergraduates positively. The study concluded that except for WhatsApp platform, the usage of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram negatively affect the study habits of undergraduates in North Central Nigeria. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that University management in collaboration with counsellors should make strict rules and regulations on the use of smart phones for accessing social media platforms during lecture hours and lecturers should be supported by the management to implement these rules and through counseling, undergraduates should be made to realize all the potential harm from excessive use of social platforms and responsibly approach the learning process.

Social Media and Purchase Habits of Consumers

This research focused on social media’s impact on purchasing decisions in the Lalitpur district. Through the convenience sample, two-hundred responses were obtained through five-point Likert-type questionnaires. Based on descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis, Consumers’ actions were shown to be significantly and positively correlated with the degree to which they trusted content shared on social media platforms. However, perceived risk was found to have a negative and significant relationship with consumer behavior. In addition, the perceived value was found to have a significant positive association with consumer behavior. The regression analysis showed that trust in social media and perceived value significantly affect consumer behavior. At the same time, perceived risk was found to have a significant adverse effect on consumer behavior. This study concluded that the impact of social media has a significant effect on consumer behavior in Lalitpur District.

“A series of little high fives”: mental health and digital habituation in women’s Instagram practices

ABSTRACT Headlines about the negative impact of Instagram on women’s mental health abound in public conversations. Yet, in a neoliberal context of limited care services and gendered pressures to “control” one’s emotions, many women are also turning to Instagram for dealing with the disabling effects of mental illness. Looking at how women use Instagram for creating and finding resources, this article complicates the general assumption that “bad” social media habits maintain psychological status quo. It considers, instead, the complex role that digital habits play in women’s experience of mental illness. Making a feminist media studies intervention into the study of mediated care, it argues that women's use of Instagram for mental health shapes their experience of mental illness through what the author calls digital habituation. The article focuses on the stories of three women—collected through in-depth interviews and media go-alongs – to demonstrate that however contradictory their digital habits may be, at times participating in postfeminist self-regulation, they simultaneously provide soothing affects. While popular discourses around gender, social media, and mental illness are tainted with moral panic, digital habituation offers a capacious framework for considering the potential and limits of using social media for women’s health.

Benefits and risks of LGBT social media use for sexual and gender minority individuals: An investigation of psychosocial mechanisms of LGBT social media use and well-being

There has been a proliferation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social media platforms and users over the past decade. Previous studies have reported mixed effects of social media use on well-being, but less is known about the benefits and risks of LGBT social media use. The present study investigated different aspects of LGBT social media use and examined the psychosocial mechanisms of LGBT social media use and well-being. Among 610 LGBT individuals involved in the study, 488 (80.0%) were users of LGBT social media. Participants who identified as gay or lesbian, reported higher levels of education, and had lower income were more likely to use LGBT social media. On the one hand, the integration of LGBT social media into social routines was associated with lower levels of internalized stigma and higher levels of community connectedness, which were linked to better well-being. On the other hand, emotional investment in LGBT social media was negatively associated with well-being, and the association was mediated by internalized stigma and loneliness. The results demonstrated the beneficial and deleterious aspects of LGBT social media use. The findings have implications for developing interventions to promote social media literacy and establish healthy social media habits among LGBT individuals.

4.7 Cultivating Healthy Social Media Habits in Adolescents

The objectives of this presentation are to: 1) describe appropriate and actionable limits on social media for teenagers, and to learn how to discern when use is problematic; 2) introduce strategies to clinicians for helping parents maintain effective structure around social media for teens; and 3) recognize therapeutic interventions for clinicians to teach self-regulation of social media to teens.

Social Media Habits of Rural Consumers Influencing Online Consumption

Social Media Habits of Rural Consumers Influencing Online Consumption

TIKTOK TEENS: NEW RESEARCH REVEALS HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECTS MENTAL HEALTH

Social media engagement among youth has rapidly become more prevalent and pervasive, particularly with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which time it became the default method of socialization for many. Typical characteristics of social media habits are evolving rapidly along with their effects on mental health, limiting the utility of older data and making an understanding of the latest research invaluable for practitioners. We present novel work by leading researchers documenting patterns and parameters of youth social media engagement and their significance for contemporary psychiatry.

Contrasting Social Media Use Between Young Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Type 1 Diabetes: Cross-sectional Study.

BackgroundSocial media is used by young adult patients for social connection and self-identification.ObjectiveThis study aims to compare the social media habits of young adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and type 1 diabetes (T1D).MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study of subjects from Boston Children’s Hospital outpatient IBD and diabetes clinics. Patients above 18 years of age were invited to complete a brief anonymous survey, which asked about the various ways they use several social media platforms.ResultsResponses were received from 108 patients (92.5% response rate), evenly split across disease type. We found that 83% of participants spent at least 30 minutes per day on social media, most commonly on Instagram and Facebook. Although the content varied based on the platform, patients with IBD posted or shared content related to their disease significantly less than those with T1D (23% vs 38%, P=.02). Among Instagram users, patients with IBD were less likely to engage with support groups (22% vs 56%, P=.04). Among Twitter users, patients with IBD were less likely to seek disease information (77% vs 29%, P=.005). Among Facebook users, patients with IBD were less likely to post about research and clinical trials (31% vs 65%, P=.04) or for information seeking (49% vs 87%, P=.003). Patients with IBD were also less likely to share their diagnosis with friends or family in person.ConclusionsYoung adults with IBD were less willing to share their diagnosis and post about or explore the disease on social media compared to those with T1D. This could lead to a sense of isolation and should be further explored.

Interfaith Debate Through Youtube Media as an Effort to Educate and Fortify the Faith of the Ummah

The da'wah method through youtube media is a method used by Muslim debaters in conveying da'wah messages so that the da'wah message is conveyed according to the objectives to the listeners and viewers of the youtube channel so that Muslims are fortified with their faith so that they are not easily influenced and not easy to be converted by other religions. To facilitate and attract a broader audience in the world of da'wah and broadcast or debate between Islam and Christianity, Muslim and Christian apologists or debaters use effective communication media through online media, one of which is YouTube. The delivery of messages of truth must be systematically arranged so that the mission of this ministry can run efficiently and effectively. The research approach used is qualitative with nethographic research methods, namely the method used to understand the culture of social media users. The culture referred to here is social media (Youtube) as a safe space for social media users to share information. Netnography is a method for social media users' behavior (culture) or habits.

Communication ethics in distribution of information through Youtube social media (Case of teacher sexual harassment on Santriwati)

In social life, YouTube as a social media is often used to spread messages and information quickly on a large scale to its users at a relatively low cost. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe communication ethics in the use of youtube social media as a means of information media for youtube users through a geographic method approach, which is a method used to understand the culture of social media users as a safe space for youtube social media users in sharing information. Netnography is a method for investigating social media users' behavior (culture) or habits. This research is only focused on communication ethics in the use of YouTube social media as a medium for disseminating and fulfilling information for the community by raising a case about the harassment and rape of a religious teacher as well as the owner of a boarding school to his students to give birth to a baby. The problems studied were cases of harassment and rape against female students that occurred in several Islamic boarding schools that were carried out by the teacher/ustad himself.

#Witchlife: witchy digital spaces

ABSTRACT What does it mean to live a #witchlife? This article attempts to answer this question by exploring the social media habits and practices of young women who identify as witches. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Australia, this article presents insights drawn from interviews and participant observation which I conducted. Throughout this article I argue that social media platforms are important spaces where witches create their social identities. A key component of this identity work is the playful and critical ways these young witches contest normative gendered scripts and re-imagine new narratives for themselves . This article identifies and analyses a selection of these scripts and links them to broader patterns in witchcraft communities to 're-weave' dis-empowering narratives, spinning them into new and more elaborate tapestries.

Practici ale artiștilor plastici din România în promovarea operelor de artă

An open call for an online visual arts exhibition promises global visibility in exchange for a sum of money to be communicated in private only. Once I acknowledged this invitation, I contacted the curator for clarifications about the means of ensuring the promised global visibility and the number of social media followers I shall gain, questioning their marketing intentions and knowledge. I decided to find out how many credulous visual artists are in Romania and their social media habits. I conceived an online questionnaire about social media usage and spread it among artists from Romania, obtaining answers from most counties and from abroad. I found the responses: which are the most used social networks; what social media marketing knowledge artists have; the number of followers and content interactions; the relationship between personal websites, exhibitions, and social media.

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Eating, Body Image, and Social Media Habits Among Women With and Without Symptoms of Orthorexia Nervosa.

The COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting people’s mental health worldwide. The current study examined the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on adult women’s eating, body image, and social media habits. Furthermore, we compared individuals with and without signs of orthorexia nervosa, a proposed eating disorder. Participants were 143 women, aged 17–73 years (M = 25.85, SD = 8.12), recruited during a COVID-19 lockdown in Canada from May-June 2020. Participants completed self-report questionnaires on their eating, body image, and social media habits during the pandemic. The Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) assessed symptoms of orthorexia nervosa. Compared to the period prior to lockdown, women with higher total orthorexia nervosa scores reported eating a lot more than usual, feeling greater pressure to diet and lose weight, thinking about food more often than usual, experiencing greater weight gain, and perceiving more pressure from social media specifically to lose weight and to exercise, compared to their healthy counterparts. We examined associations between individual EHQ subscales and perceived changes to eating and weight. Women who scored high on EHQ-Problems reported seeing more weight loss content on their social media than those who reported fewer orthorexia nervosa symptoms. Conversely, those who scored low on EHQ-Feelings reported feeling a lot less pressure to lose weight, somewhat less or a lot less pressure to lose weight or to exercise from social media specifically, and trended toward less laxative use during lockdown, compared to those who scored higher on orthorexia nervosa. And those who scored low on EHQ-Knowledge reported feeling somewhat less or a lot less pressure to lose weight than those who reported more orthorexia nervosa symptoms. Together, the findings suggest that women with symptoms of orthorexia nervosa are experiencing an exacerbation of disordered eating thoughts and behaviors during COVID-19, and that social media may be a contributing factor.

Social media use, habits and attitudes toward e-professionalism among medicine and dental medicine students: a quantitative cross-sectional study

AimTo describe and compare social media (SM) use and habits, and attitudes of medical and dental students toward e-professionalism and to determine their opinion on potentially unprofessional behavior and posts.MethodsIn this quantitative cross-sectional questionnaire study, students of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and those of the School of Dental Medicine completed a survey-specific questionnaire on the use of SM, SM habits, and attitudes toward e-professionalism.ResultsOf the 714 collected questionnaires, we analyzed 698 (411 from medical and 287 from dental students). The most commonly used SM were Facebook (99%) and Instagram (80.7%). Unprofessional content was recognized by both groups. Medical students significantly more frequently considered the posts containing patient photos (61% vs 89.8%; P < 0.001), describing interaction with a patient not revealing any personal identifiable information (23% vs 41.8%; P < 0.001), and containing critical comments about faculty (53% vs 39.7%; P = 0.001) to be unprofessional. Dental medicine students were significantly more open to communication through SM (39.7% vs 16.3%; P < 0.001), more often reported that they would accept (41.5% vs 12.2%; P < 0.001), and had accepted (28.2% vs 5.6%; P < 0.001) friend requests/follows/tracks from patients, and sent friend requests/follows/tracks to their patients (5.2% vs 1.2%; P = 0.002).ConclusionBoth groups were highly aware of e-professionalism. Dental students were more desensitized to visual representations of patients, and more prone to SM interactions with patients, which might expose them to the risk of unprofessional behavior.