{"doi":"10.31234/osf.io/exhru","title":"Social Media and Well-being: A Methodological Perspective","abstract":"Due to the methodological challenges inherent in studying social media use (SMU), as well as the methodological choices that have shaped research into the effects of SMU on well- being, clear conclusions regarding relationships between SMU and well-being remain elusive. We provide a review of five methodological developments poised to provide increased understanding in this domain: (1) increased use of longitudinal and experimental designs; (2) the adoption of behavioural (rather than self-report) measures of SMU; (3) focusing on more nuanced aspects of SMU; (4) embracing effect heterogeneity; and (5) the use of formal modelling and machine learning. We focus on how these advances stand to bring us closer to understanding relations between SMU and well-being, as well as the challenges associated with these developments.","journal":"PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)","year":2021,"id":214028,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":13,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9527,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":806851,"name":"Jacob T. Fisher","orcid":"0000-0002-2968-2557","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":806852,"name":"Hannah Mieczkowski","orcid":"0000-0002-2479-4509","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":806853,"name":"Craig Sewall","orcid":"0000-0003-1102-5695","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":806854,"name":"Brittany I Davidson","orcid":"0000-0001-9886-9043","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":806850,"name":"Douglas A. Parry","orcid":"0000-0002-6443-3425","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":53,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:52:41.672172Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}