A review of theories and models applied in studies of social media addiction and implications for future research

Y Sun, Y Zhang - Addictive behaviors, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing use of social media, the addictive use of this new technology also grows.
Previous studies found that addictive social media use is associated with negative …

Building and breaking social media habits

JB Bayer, IA Anderson, RS Tokunaga - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media habits represent one of the most common–and controversial–forms of habitual
behavior in contemporary society. In this brief article, we summarize the state of research on …

Explaining the success of social media with gratification niches: Motivations behind daytime, nighttime, and active use of TikTok in China

S Scherr, K Wang - Computers in human behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Drawing from niche theory and the uses and gratifications approach, this study explores the
gratification niches of TikTok as a new social media app. As a first step, we developed a …

Social media, thin-ideal, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes: An exploratory analysis

P Aparicio-Martinez, AJ Perea-Moreno… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Disordered eating attitudes are rapidly increasing, especially among young women in their
twenties. These disordered behaviours result from the interaction of several factors …

The education of desire and the use of ICT

OY Aparicio Gómez - Desire and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter proposes an approach to the education of desire in students who routinely use
ICT in their formal, nonformal, and informal educational processes. The use and …

Exploring determinants of social media addiction in higher education through the integrated lenses of technology acceptance model (TAM) and usage habit

N Paiman, MA Fauzi - Journal of Applied Research in Higher …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This research aims to build on the pre-existing corpus of literature through the
integration of the technology acceptance model (TAM) and usage habit to more accurately …

Gender differences in the addiction to social networks in the Southern Spanish university students

P Aparicio-Martínez, M Ruiz-Rubio… - Telematics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social networks sites have become the most popular instrument used to communicate and
exchange information resulting in the addiction to this media. Previous studies suggested …

Behavioral intention to use mobile learning: Evaluating the role of self-efficacy, subjective norm, and WhatsApp use habit

JA Kumar, B Bervell, N Annamalai, S Osman - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study empirically investigates factors predicting students' behavioral intentions towards
the continuous use of mobile learning. Two baseline models namely the Technology …

Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective

M Naranjo-Zolotov, O Turel, T Oliveira… - Computers in Human …, 2021 - Elsevier
During periods of public unrest, people tend to increase their daily usage of social media
sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, to keep themselves abreast of …

“Give your thumb a break” from surfing tragic posts: Potential corrosive consequences of social media users' doomscrolling

R Shabahang, S Kim, AA Hosseinkhanzadeh… - Media …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Negativity bias predicts that individuals will attend to, learn from, and prioritize negative
news more than positive news. Drawing from the addiction components model, this cross …