A Review of Mindfulness and Social Media Excessive Use

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.238How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media addiction; Social networking websites; Social media addiction; Mindfulness; Mindfulness-based stressful reduction; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Abstract

The social networking has become an inseparable part of human being’s daily life across different age groups. More people are growing an obsession to the online platform that this problematic behaviour has caused negative impact toward people’s life. Solutions for this excessive behaviour have been intensively discussed but still remained unsolved. Mindfulness, discussed in multiple articles, has a direct or indirect impact on the excessive usage of the social media. Therefore, this paper would review literatures about the relationship between mindfulness and social media excessive use. These major topics will be discussed as following: if mindfulness could really help to reduce the social media addictive behaviour; the way that individuals with higher trait mindfulness different from those with lower trait mindfulness in regards to the problematic social media use, and the role mindfulness play in the intervention for the excessive use of social media addiction. These results shed light on if and how mindfulness training sessions should be adopted by the school, community, and working environment.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TI  - A Review of Mindfulness and Social Media Excessive Use
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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