Stress and Emotional Regulation Moderate the Relationship between Social Media Experiences and Depression

Poster Session VI

Keyword: Digital Media

Abstract: Adolescents have positive and negative experiences on social media (SM). Findings indicated that positive SM experiences may be protective in the links among emotion regulation, stressors, and depressive symptoms. For example, stress demonstrated weaker associations with depressive symptoms when adolescents had high levels of positive SM experiences.

• Reese Keveanos (Presenting Author)
• Radha Kautavarapu (Author)
• Cate Coffino (Author)
• Ariana Arken (Author)
• Sarah Borowski (Author)