Oct 04, 2019 07:00:00

It turns out that just quitting Facebook for one week eliminates `` feeling depression '' and drastically reduces depression symptoms

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Past research has shown that `` The more you use Facebook, the less you will be satisfied with your life '' and `` People who compare themselves on SNS often have depression symptoms '', Facebook, Twitter etc. It has been suggested that overuse of social media will adversely affect the youthful spirit. Meanwhile, an experiment targeting young people who are addicted to Facebook has revealed that 'depressing Facebook dramatically improves depression symptoms.'

The Economic Effects of Facebook by Roberto Mosquera, Mofioluwasademi (Moffii) Odunowo, Trent McNamara, Xiongfei Guo, Ragan Petrie :: SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3312462

Roberto Moskera, an assistant professor who studies economics at an American university in Ecuador, is an American university student who works with Mofioluwasademi Odunowo, a student at Texas A & M University , and uses Facebook for an average of 1.9 hours a day An experiment was conducted on 1769 people. This time of 1.9 hours is just three times the average adult Facebook usage time of 38 minutes per day in the United States, so you can see that the target people are quite heavy users.

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In the experiment, participants were randomly divided into “groups that continue to use Facebook as they are” and “groups that prohibit the use of Facebook” and spent a week. After that, a questionnaire on life and happiness was conducted, and the group who left Facebook for one week said that 'impulsive purchase', 'meal amount', and 'wasteful time' were remarkably reduced.

In addition, according to the results of the questionnaire on happiness, we found that “feeling depressed” has decreased considerably. The following images are graphs of the questionnaire results, and each bar graph represents 'overall satisfaction', 'meaning of life', 'happiness', 'worry', 'feeling depressed' from the left, and the vertical axis is a psychological test A commonly used Likert scale . Of these, the first four did not change statistically significantly, but the rightmost “feeling of depression” decreased by 0.57 points, which reduced depression symptoms by 17%. It is equivalent to that.

From the above results, the research team concluded that “there is a relationship between Facebook use and the symptoms of depression”. On the other hand, about the reason that depression symptoms improved by quitting Facebook use, `` Because less time to use Facebook increased exercise and outside activities, as a result depression symptoms improved, Facebook `` It is unclear whether there is a cause in itself, '' he said, further research is necessary as to whether the relationship with depression is unique to Facebook or whether it is due to taking time on SNS .