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Research on the Impact of College Students’ Mental Health and Social Media Use on Loneliness

Authors
Jiangyue Qu1, *
1School of Information and Communication Engineering, Communication University of China, Beijing, China, 100024
*Corresponding author. Email: 283037779@qq.com
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Jiangyue Qu
Available Online 1 June 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220504.241How to use a DOI?
Keywords
social media; loneliness; psychology; mental health; college students
Abstract

Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that social media plays an essential role in our daily life, especially for college students, who have a high degree of demand and desire for social contact. Many studies have found that increased use of social media is associated with the deleterious outcomes of mental health, for it might lead to a sense of loneliness. This study was aimed at analyzing how loneliness caused by social media use impacts college students’ mental health. Two hundred and eighty college students aged 17 to 26 from Communication University of China participated in this study by completing an online survey of the intensity of social media use, the level of loneliness and the mental health condition in November 2021. The results showed that college students’ fear of disconnection was positively correlated with their intensity of social media use. In addition, most students were concerned whether somebody noticed their posts and felt depressed if there was no like or comment when they posted something on their moments. Moreover, students depressed by their unsatisfied sense of social connection tend to have a bad mental health condition. In conclusion, social media use does have an influence on college students’ feelings of loneliness, impacting their mental health, which should be taken seriously.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 June 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-580-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220504.241How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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