Psychology
Mental wellbeing effects of disclosing life events on social media
K. Saha, D. W. Yoo, et al.
Social media disclosures of life events can shape mental wellbeing — this study of 236 Facebook users shows how. Regression and quasi-experimental analyses reveal that sharing life events increases positive affect and sleep quality while reducing negative affect, stress, and anxiety, with disclosures of negative events showing the strongest wellbeing gains. This research was conducted by Koustuv Saha, Dong Whi Yoo, Vedant Das Swain, and Munmun De Choudhury.
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