articleCommunication ResearchOct 21, 2020Closed access

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

AMAdrian MeierLRLeonard Reinecke

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Abstract

Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and specifically social media, may affect the mental health (MH) and well-being of its users, for better or worse. Research on this topic has accumulated rapidly, accompanied by controversial public debate and numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Yet, a higher-level integration of the multiple disparate conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH and individual review findings is desperately needed. To this end, we first develop two organizing frameworks that systematize conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH. Based on these frameworks, we integrate the literature through a meta-review of 34 reviews and a content analysis of 594…

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  • Mental health
  • Conceptual framework
  • Psychology
  • Social media
  • Association (psychology)
  • Affect (linguistics)
  • Field (mathematics)
  • Conceptual blending
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