title: Problematic Social Media Use: Results from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample.
abstract: Despite social media use being one of the most popular activities among adolescents, prevalence estimates among teenage samples of social media (problematic) use are lacking in the field. The present study surveyed a nationally representative Hungarian sample comprising 5,961 adolescents as part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and based on latent profile analysis, 4.5% of the adolescents belonged to the at-risk group, and reported low self-esteem, high level of depression symptoms, and elevated social media use. Results also demonstrated that BSMAS has appropriate psychometric properties. It is concluded that adolescents at-risk of problematic social media use should be targeted by school-based prevention and intervention programs.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.|Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Fanni
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bányai
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.|Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Ágnes
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Zsila
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Orsolya
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Király
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Aniko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maraz
authors.affiliation: Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zsuzsanna
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Elekes
authors.affiliation: International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Cecilie Schou
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Andreassen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zsolt
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5604-7551
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Demetrovics
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D061108:Social Media / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*