Type,"Title (Orig.)","Title (Engl. transl.)",Authors,Year,Language,"Type of publication","Main Results","Theoretical contribution","Implications for parents","Implications for educational professionals","Implications for policy makers","Implications for other stakeholders",DOI,"Evidence Base URL" Publication,"How Adolescents Use Social Media to Cope with Feelings of Loneliness and Anxiety During COVID-19 Lockdown",,"Cauberghe V.;Van Wesenbeeck I.;De Jans S.;Hudders L.;Ponnet K.",2020,English,"Journal article","""Most of the adolescents indicated a heightened social media use during the lockdown. Media use is driven by a need to self-regulate one’s (negative) emotions, to feel better. It was the most beneficial strategy to use social media to self-regulate mood during the lockdown. Using social media to actively face the situation relieved their feelings of distress and anxiety to some degree, increasing happiness feelings. A higher feeling of loneliness among the participants predicted social media use to keep in touch with peers and family, but it was not associated with happiness. Using social media as a substitute for physical social relations makes adolescents feel less happy. Adolescents’ feelings of loneliness are more strongly (and negatively) related to feelings of happiness than those of anxiety. The enormous amount of distributed (dis)information on social media may disorient and overwhelm individuals. In addition, emotional COVID19-related tweets may amplify feelings of anxiety and depression. Yet, social media can be used as an instrument to actively cope with the situation to relieve feelings of anxiety, and feel better. Distribution of reassuring information and self-efficacy on social media might make anxious adolescents feel better. Also, humor on social media is beneficial for adolescents’ well-being during lockdown."" (Cauberghe et al., 2020, pp. 6-7)",No,,,,,10.1089/cyber.2020.0478,https://base.core-evidence.eu/publications/39