While social media is assumed to exacerbate adolescents’ depressive symptoms, research findings are ambiguous. One way to move the field forward is by looking beyond time spent on social media and considering subjective experiences. The current three-wave longitudinal panel study examines the within- and between-person relations between adolescents’ self-worth dependency on social media feedback and depressive symptoms. About 1,607 adolescents participated in two of the three waves, yet a third had to be excluded due to failing an attention check. Among the analytical sample of 1,032 adolescents, we found that adolescents who derived more of their self-worth from social media feedback were also more depressed, as indicated by a positive correlation at the between-person level. No support was found for within-person associations over time. These results highlight the need to examine effects of subjective experiences with social media by separating within- and between-person dynamics to reach more precise conclusions.

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当青少年的自我价值取决于他们的社交媒体反馈时：抑郁症状的纵向调查

虽然社交媒体被认为会加剧青少年的抑郁症状，但研究结果并不明确。推动该领域向前发展的一种方法是超越花在社交媒体上的时间并考虑主观体验。目前的三波纵向小组研究考察了青少年对社交媒体反馈的自我价值依赖与抑郁症状之间的人内和人际关系。大约 1,607 名青少年参加了三波中的两波，但第三波因未能通过注意力检查而不得不被排除在外。在 1,032 名青少年的分析样本中，我们发现从社交媒体反馈中获得更多自我价值的青少年也更抑郁，人与人之间的正相关表明了这一点。随着时间的推移，没有发现对人际关联的支持。这些结果强调需要通过区分人内和人与人之间的动态来检查社交媒体主观体验的影响，以得出更准确的结论。