社交网站使用与抑郁的关系

Relationship between Social Network Sites Use and Depression

抑郁和社交网站使用存在关联关系。一方面,社交网站可以让使用者便捷地浏览他人呈现的积极信息而诱发自动的上行社会比较,进而诱发或加剧用户的抑郁状态;另一方面,社交网站也有助于使用者突破时间和空间的限制来建构更多元的人际关系网络和积累更丰富的社会资本,进而可以预防或减轻用户的抑郁状态。通过对二者间复杂的关系机制进行文献梳理,详细地分析和阐释了分歧性研究结果的可能原因,展望未来的研究问题和研究方向。

There exists a relationship between depression and social network sites(SNS） use. On the one hand,SNS makes it convenient for users to browse positive information presented by others,which motivates users to make upward social comparison automatically,resulting in inducing or aggravating the level of depression. On the other hand,SNS also makes it possible for users to break through the limit of time and space to develop more multiple social networks(social ties） and build up more social capital,which can prevent or reduce the struggling status of depression over time. By reviewing the recent updated literatures including many new researches on Chinese adolescents and adults,this paper clarifies the complex influencing mechanism between SNS use and depression,analyzes and expounds in detail the possible causes of the existing divergent results,and discusses the future research problems and directions.