Wellbeing, social media addiction and coping strategies among Chilean adolescents during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents had to deal with a range of mental health problems that has increased social media addiction levels with adverse effects on life satisfaction. Previous studies have explored coping mechanisms to deal with this addiction problem, but did not consider the need to simultaneously cope with different dimensions. Therefore, our study aimed to examine the moderating effect of various coping mechanisms on the relationship between social media addiction and adolescent life satisfaction.

Methods

Self-report questionnaires were applied to 1290 secondary school students (age mean = 16.03, SD = 1.27, range: 14 to 19; and 57% female). An exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis were performed to determine the factor struc

SUBMITTER: Varela JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10497769 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature