A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the relationship between youth drinking, self‐posting of alcohol use and other social media engagement (2012–21)

B Cheng, CCW Lim, BN Rutherford, S Huang… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aim Social networking sites (SNS) are interactive internet‐based social
platforms that facilitate information sharing. A growing body of literature on exposure to, and …

Predictors of using social media to purchase drugs in New Zealand: Findings from a large-scale online survey

R van der Sanden, C Wilkins, JS Romeo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background There are increasing reports of social media being used to buy and sell illegal
drugs internationally. Studies of social media drug markets to date have largely involved …

Emerging adults' social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk

CF Scott, LY Bay-Cheng, TH Nochajski… - Children and Youth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Nearly all US emerging adults use social media at least daily, and most discuss
their offline activities online, including their alcohol misuse. As a result, developing evidence …

“Protecting my Positivity”: Emerging Adults as Social Media Actors, Agents, and Authors

L Naude - Emerging Adulthood, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media engagements are integral to the lives and experiences of emerging adults. The
aim of this study was to explore social media as a space where South African emerging …

Socially networked lives: How adolescents and young adults engage with social media.

MK Underwood, MJ George, K Burnell - 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
This chapter argues that online social engagement matters a great deal for the relationships
and adjustment of adolescents and young adults, in a manner that is often seamless with …

First comes substance use, then comes social media posts? Examining the temporal ordering and relative strength of relations across alcohol, tobacco and marijuana …

F Geusens, MA Lewis, TM Dumas, DM Litt - Health Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Social media posts represent a major route by which youth share their substance use
cognitions and experiences with others. Extant research has primarily examined relations …

Emerging adults' exposure to and postings about substance use on social media: An observational study

K Burnell, FC Andrade, RH Hoyle - Emerging Adulthood, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In a community sample of emerging adults (N= 232), this study (a) assessed participants'
exposure to and postings about alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and marijuana across …

A pilot study exploring the viability of focus groups as a brief social media literacy intervention for substance use prevention among adolescents

HK Dunn, DN Pearlman, P Florin - Journal of Adolescent and …, 2020 - scholar.utc.edu
This study used a sample of high school students (n= 33; M= 16.4 years, SD= 1.19) to
explore whether focus groups (n= 4) meant to inform the development of a substance use …

Identifying cannabis use risk through social media based on deep learning methods

D Ibrahim, D Inkpen, HA Osman - International Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - Springer
Cannabis is the most used drug around the world with the highest risks and associated
criminal problems in many countries. This research describes the process of classifying …

Is Posting about Alcohol on Social Networking Sites Associated with Self-reported Alcohol-Induced Blackouts in a Diverse Sample of Non-College-Attending Young …

J Merrill, L Davidson, B Riordan, Z Logan… - 2024 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
Research among young adults (YA), in samples of majority White college students, indicates
links between posting about alcohol on social media and self-reported drinking behavior …