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  • 25 - Social Media Use and Misuse, Stress, and the Development of Coping

  • from Part VI - Application and the Development of Coping
  • Edited by Ellen A. Skinner, Portland State University, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Griffith University, Queensland
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
    Published online:
    22 June 2023
    Print publication:
    06 July 2023, pp 597-611

  • Summary

    The current chapter sets out to create a holistic overview of the relationships between social media use, stress, and coping. It discusses the ways in which social media can be employed as an adaptive way of coping by supporting information seeking and by providing online social support. However, the nature and design of social media platforms can enable maladaptive ways of coping by facilitating cyberbullying and negative online social comparison. Furthermore, the chapter examines how social media can be a coping liability when the user is psychologically dependent or addicted to media, or when their use prevents them from learning other ways to cope. Additionally, social media use is introduced as a stressor for young users through fear of missing out. Lastly, social media can be a resource for coping by providing assistance in coping with social media-related stressors and by providing ways to establish social resources or social support.

  • Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia

  • Sigrun Sveinbjornsdottir, Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson, Govinda Ishwar Lingam
  • Journal:
    Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology / Volume 11 / 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 December 2017, e12
    Print publication:
    2017
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  • A two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping with cross-cultural and cross-Human Development Index Categories (HDI) application was tested: the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS). The MACS was answered by 809 adolescents of diverse origins from different parts of Fiji and compared with findings from Australia and Iceland. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results showed the MACS to have a reliable factorial and dimensional structure in Fiji. Differences between girls and boys were similar in Fiji, Australia, and Iceland. Stoicism/distraction was identical for boys and girls in all countries. There were no differences comparing mother tongue (Fijian and Hindi). The two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping was supported.