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Isabella Suber

Dean Leonard

English 1201.509

29 June 2019

Work Cited

Berryman, Chloe, et al. “Social Media Use and Mental Health among Young Adults.”

Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 307–314. EBSCOhost,

doi:10.1007/s11126-017-9535-6.

This article is written by Chloe Berryman, Christopher J. Ferguson, and Charles Negy,

and was published in the Psychiatric Quarterly in 2018. This article records a study done with

467 young adolescents to study the connection between social media use and engaging in

vaguebook, which is posting unclear but alarming post to draw attention to one’s self. The

audience of this article is parents, hoping to education them on how social media effects their

children, and how spot the use vaguebooks to know when their child needs help. This is an

accredited source with multiple authors, published in a respectable journal. It was published

online earlier than it was published in the journal, but the study is less than two years old,

making it current and relevant to my paper. This will help my paper by giving it a counter

argument. According to this study many concerns with social media are misplaced. This will let

me give voice to the other side addressing the concern that we are placing too much spotlight on

social media to cover for increased rates of mental health issues. I will use my other sources to

strengthen my claim after giving a counter argument.

Charles , Shamard. “Teens, but Not Adults, Suffering Mental Health Disorders Linked to Social

Media.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 14 Mar. 2019,

www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/social-media-linked-rise-mental-health-

disorders-teens-survey-finds-n982526.

Shamard Charles, M.D. writes for NBC news in March of 2019, discussing how lack of

sleep and the growth of social media influence has caused the teenage suicide rate to sky rocket.

The writer sites sources showing that the suicide rate in teens has gone up by 47 percent from

2008 to 2017. Though he points out that the increase of suicide because of added social media

usage may not be the cause but the effect of teenage depression. Given this information the

author suggests that the sleeplessness of this generation could contribute to a reason for a spike

in teenage suicide. This article was not written for the group of people it is discussing, for it is

written from the perspective of an older person analyzing data about a young generation. In this

case it is written for parents and grandparents that would be in the older generations, giving a

responsibility of the audience to help the young people that are in their lives.The article is a

reliable source, written by Shamard Charles who holds an M.D. It has a date that is current, and

is posted on a reliable sight. The article goes outside of the authors own opinion and uses data

from a national survey, the American Psychological Association, and author Jean Twenge. In my

paper I will be discussing the effect of social media on adolescents and how it affects mental

health, therefore I will be able to pull the sources and references used in this article to

demonstrate a knowledge of teenage suicide rate and the effect that social media and sleep

deprivation has on teens.

Green, Jonathan, director. Social_Animals. Conscious Minds Production , 2018.

Jonathan Green partners with Conscious Mind Production to create the movie

Social_Animals. This documentary is about the impact social media can have on teenagers,

specifically the three teenagers featured in the film. It closely follows three diversely different
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adolescents as they use social media in their lives. The audience is directed towards the whole

population, the purpose of this movie to show others the impact and hurtfulness social media can

have on individuals. This documentary will impact my paper because it provides different

insights to how people use and abuse social media. One of the teenagers is a victim of cyber

bullying, causing depression, infecting her mental state. Another adolescent climbs impossibly

high structures to post (illegal) pictures, social media has driven him to a lack of good

judgement, causing him to repeatedly pursue illegal activity for more likes. This documentary

shows all sides of social media, not just the depression or lack of sleep in gives, but the reckless

behavior it can encourage.

Koplewicz, Harold. “Smartphones and Social Media.” Child Mind Institute, 2017,

childmind.org/report/2017-childrens-mental-health-report/smartphones-social-media/.

Harold Kolewicz writes an article for the Child Mind Institute discussing how the takeover of

the smartphone among teens has an effect mental health and social interactions. This entire

article is broken into the positives and negatives effects of social media on teens. The

commonality between the two is that this generation spends more time inside, therefore things

that other generations would do outside are declining, such as getting into car accidents or

becoming pregnant. On the negative side, teens have a higher suicide rate, they tend to be more

unhappy and show other negative mental well-being. This article’s audience is for young adults

and new parents, as it is from the Child's Mind Institute. This writer is writing form an older

perspective but not a middle age perspective as he is taking information for a more centralized

and young perspective. The writer has purposed this article to inform readers who are merely

looking at this generation in the rearview mirror. This website is reliable and has many different

writing styles and authors per article, as the Child Mind Institute has numerous certified
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psychologist, scientist, and councilors to provide a wide view of how social media affects mental

health. This article is not biased as it comes from a writing team that tries to cover as much area

as possible to give the reader the best understanding. This article provides a plethora of sources

that will give insight on my paper’s main purpose, the effect social media has on teens. In the

context of this article one can find positives and negatives of social media on teens providing

multiple perspectives and information for a paper discussing social media's affect on teens

mental health.

Mir , Elina, and Caroline Novas. “Social Media and Adolescents' and Young Adults' Mental

Health.” National Center for Health Research, 17 Oct. 2018,

www.center4research.org/social-media-affects-mental-health/.

Elina Mir and Caroline Novas write an article published by the National Center for Health

Research to inform readers to the dangers of social media amongst teens and young adults. The

writers cite sources that share the percentage of 18-24 years olds that use certain social media

sites. These writers also discuss how there is a difference between the kids who can handle the

pressure of social media and the ones who cannot. This creates an atmosphere online where teens

who have a strong self confidence are able to support an image of superiority, while the teens

with less confidence compare themselves to these other teens and begin to create a poor self-

image. The writer's purpose for this article is to teach people the problems with social media and

teens. This article was written with an older generation in mind as it explains to the audience

what to do as a parent and how to avoid these issues arising in teens and young adults. This

article has two female authors and has a list of several references, and approved before

publishing by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and other senior staff. This article is published by the

National Center of Health Research. This article would be very useful for a paper discussing the
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impact that social media has on mental health in teens. For this article gives many sources and

provides abundant information regarding social media and its correlation to teenage mental

illness. Not only would this article be extremely useful, but this website has various helpful

article and resource.

Soltysiak , Anne. OER PSY 1100 Readings . Diener Education Fund, 2016.

This book is written by Anne Soltysiak published by Diener Education Fund for Sinclair

Community College. This book address the basis of psychology, and goes over fundamentals.

This book addressed gender, anxiety disorders and related disorders, mood disorders, multi-

modal perception, and history of mental illness. The purpose of this book is to dissect the inter

works of psychology and how the human mind works and response. This book is written and

accredited and used as a college textbook, the audience is college students taking a psychology

class. This book will be helpful because it will help me explain and break down certain mental

illnesses and health problems. My paper discusses the connection between social media and

mental health; however, before I explain the connection my audience needs to read about what

mental illnesses are and which ones are affected more by social media and what gender is

influenced the most, this book will contribute to me explaining and break down certain mental

health issues.

Suber , Isabella, and Amaha Sellassie. “How Social Media Effects Mental Health .” July 2019.

This interview will be extremely beneficial for my research. I have conducted a list of

several questions that discuss the connection between social media and mental health specifically

from a sociological perspective. Amaha Sellassie is a professor at Sinclair Community College,

and holds a position of Chair of the Dayton Human Relations Council, director of Center for

Applied Social Issues at Sinclair, member of the Community Police council, and co-chair of the
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MLK march. Amaha Sellassie earned his education from Sinclair, Wright State University, and

the University of Cincinnati, holding a Ph. D. in Sociology with an emphasis on utilizing

community based participatory research towards emerging equity and community

transformation. This interview is in the works, I have complied an email with my list of

questions that Amaha Sellassie has agreed to answers. This interview is recent and based on

Amaha professional opinion as a professor and Ph.D. holder of Sociology. I believe this

interview will be eye opening for my paper as I can ask specific questions for my paper that I

feel other sources did not adequately answer. Most of my resources are written by psychologist,

and this interview will be conducted with a sociologist, able to give more insight to the social

connection between social media and mental health.