Research: SOCIAL MEDIA and mental health of young people

Aims of the tool

Following are the Chapters about Internet addiction and the health effect of Internet addiction on adolescents:

• Prevalence estimates and models of Internet addiction;
• FoMO
• Risk factors of Internet addiction and the health effect of Internet addiction on adolescents;
• A cognitive-behavioural pathological Internet use;
• Body image, body disturbance, eating disorders and the relationship to adolescent media use;
• Internet addiction and among young people;
• Relationship between youth bullying and Internet addiction;
• Internet addiction and problematic mobile phone use;
• Cybersex addiction and compulsivity on youth;
• TikTok and mental health of young people: positive and negative impacts.

Description of the tool

When we talk about technological connectivity through Internet, digital social media, we have keep in mind that these tools are not so easily accessible to all. Mary Chayko, a sociologist, in her book: “Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life” (Chayko, 2016), says that half of the world population, 3,9 billion people, or 52% doesn’t have proper access to the Internet. People without access to Internet mainly live in isolated, rural areas, usually of low income, old, illiterate and very often women. Small percentage of those are offline by their own choice. Global Internet Users statistics show that in 2020, 71 per cent of the world’s youth (aged between 15 and 24 years) were using the Internet, compared with 57 per cent of the other age groups.