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In this class, you will complete a Research Study Proposal. The Research Study Proposal is divided into three pieces:
Research Study Proposal Part I, due in week 3
Research Study Proposal Part II, due in week 5
Research Study Proposal Final, due in week 8.
In this hypothetical research study proposal, you will investigate a social-psychological issue of your choice.
Requirements: Research Study Proposal Part 2
Utilizing the topic selected for the Research Study Proposal Part 1, you are to find scholarly articles with which you will compile a literature review.
You must have at least 6 scholarly articles.
Make sure that you have scholarly articles for all variables associated with your topic.
You will need to clearly indicate how the articles align with your proposed research topic. How is your topic new (i.e., address the gaps in the scholarship)?
It is also necessary to indicate how all of the articles work together to help form your research study proposal.
Structural Formatting
The literature review should have its own introduction that clearly indicates what aspects will be covered in the literature review, as well as how the research study proposal will help fill in the gaps in the current scholarship.
You must have at least 6 scholarly articles.
The literature review should be at least 4 pages in length.
The assignment must be in APA 7th edition format.
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health
A Statement of the Problem and Background Information
The introduction of the social media era, like how adolescents remark, talk and socialize, has
undergone a radical change, and their perception of the world has never been uninfluenced. The
digital age, with its immediate effect, does not let adolescents out of virtual reality. They can face
just one click away from peering at people, revealing their inner selves and indulging in a great
amount of content. The wonderful benefits of social media in facilitating connections and selfexpression are undisputable. The research, however, shows the other side of the coin that may
create negative impacts on teenagers’ mental health. The literature demonstrates a complicated
picture filled with studies that instantiate the good side of social media that helps in making social
bonds and support systems alongside findings that show social media misuse may lead to adverse
mental health outcomes, e.g., feeling so lonely, unhappy and anxious (Karim et al., 2020). The fact
that this is a dichotomy highlights the fact that we need to veer deeper into the innermost workings
of how social media affects the mental health of adolescents. To grasp these dynamics fully, we
need to give special attention to this aspect because only this way can we understand the
complexity of adolescents’ behavior in the digital age, as well as the ability to develop interventions
aimed at empowering youth and introducing healthier habits. The thorough research on the ways
of social media use by adolescents and the effect of these habits on mental health demands further
attention, the main point of which is to secure the integrity of adolescents in an online environment
that can be simultaneously connected and dangerous (Weigle & Reem M.A. Shafi, 2023)
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Research Question
In what way does the rate and extent of social media use among adolescents relate to the existence
of their loneliness, depression, and anxiety?
Hypothesis/Hypotheses
Hypothesis: The effect of social media is the increased addiction of teens to it; the teens spend it
more often for longer periods and consequently experience loneliness, depression, and anxiety.
Null Hypothesis: The vertices are the social networking sites, and the dots that symbolize the user’s
usage pattern are drawn accordingly.
Variables
Independent Variable: The time spent and frequency of social media usage.
Dependent Variables: Depression and anxiety levels can reach significant proportions.
Participants
This experiment involves a multitude of adolescents ages 13-18. We would select the right
participants to be stratified based on different social class backgrounds, which will be drawn across
urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the United States. Hence, the sampling is to get
different individuals representing the adolescents’ varied experiences, as they are affected by their
diverse sociocultural contexts in their everyday lives (O’Reilly et al., 2018). In this study, I ensure
equity in selecting participants from different social backgrounds to broaden its scope of coverage
and have a good grasp of the association between social media use and mental health outcomes
from varied socioeconomic standpoints.
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Demographics
Race: Recruits of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds will be sought to achieve diversity.
Gender: Regardless of whether they are male or female, all participants in the race may be allowed.
Age: The participants will be in a certain age group of 13-18 years.
Socioeconomic status (SES): Part of the group will be classed by proclaim regardless of regional,
national and class boundaries.
Region: The participants will be selected from diverse geographical regions throughout the US.
Inclusion Criteria
Adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 who repeatedly use social media platforms, which are
defined as these platforms being at least once a week, will be identified as individuals who fit our
criteria for eligibility to participate in the study (Petropoulos Petalas et al., 2021). Hence, the
participants must have the cognitive abilities to understand comprehensively the study objectives
and procedures. In addition, participants need to confirm their autonomy in giving informed
consent or assent with their parent or legal guardian, even though they may be under 18 years old.
This guarantees that participants recognize their involvement in the study and that all the required
permissions for participation are secured.
Exclusion Criteria
Mental health disorders significantly impacting an adolescent’s response or biased outcomes will
be excluded from the study. These measures erase the possibility of temperature data being biased
due to mental health conditions as a result of real-life experiences. Beyond that, a large group of
people who only frequently use social media will be included in the conversation. Thus, the study
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population is being prepared by taking out this group of adolescents to examine the relationship
between different social media patterns and mental outcomes among those actively engaged in
digital social circuits.
Sampling Method
This study will recruit participants from 13–18-year-old adolescents belonging to all social groups
representing different communities located in the US – urban, suburban, and rural ones. This
selective strategy of participants’ recruitment strives to be sensitive to the various layered
experiences and the many perspectives of adolescents from different socioeconomic strata,
recognizing the great diversity of the sociocultural settings in which adolescents are immersed.
This study also uses adolescents from different socioeconomic backgrounds to obtain
comprehensive coverage and fully understand the interplay between social media usage and mental
health outcomes in diverse socioeconomic contexts.
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References
Karim, F., Oyewande, A., & Abdalla, L. (2020). Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental
Health: A Systematic Review. Cureus, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8627
O’Reilly, M., Dogra, N., Whiteman, N., Hughes, J., Eruyar, S., & Reilly, P. (2018). Is social media
bad for mental health and wellbeing? Exploring the perspectives of adolescents. Clinical
Child
Psychology
and
Psychiatry,
23(4),
601–613.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104518775154
Petropoulos Petalas, D., Konijn, E. A., Johnson, B. K., Veldhuis, J., Bij de Vaate, N. A. J. D.,
Burgers, C., Droog, E., Międzobrodzka, E., Balint, K. E., & van de Schoot, R. (2021).
Plurality in Measuring Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among
Adolescents and Young Adults. Social Media + Society, 7(3), 205630512110353.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211035353
Simarjeet Kaur, M., Kamaljeet Kaur, Aprajita, Rohan Verma, M., & Pangkaj, M. (2022). Impact
of Social Media on Mental Health of Adolescents. Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative
Results ¦, 13(5). https://doi.org/10.47750/pnr.2022.13
Weigle, P. E., & Reem M.A. Shafi. (2023). Social Media and Youth Mental Health. Current
Psychiatry Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-023-01478-w
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