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  • Psychology
  • Social Media Studies
  • Mental Health Research

Background:

  • Social media use is prevalent, influencing interpersonal relationships.
  • Friendship jealousy can extend to online interactions, potentially impacting mental well-being.
  • Existing measures may not fully capture jealousy specific to social media contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a psychometrically sound measure for social media friendship jealousy.
  • To examine demographic differences in social media friendship jealousy.
  • To investigate the associations between social media friendship jealousy, friendship quality, social media use, trait jealousy, and internalizing symptoms.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a seven-item, one-factor scale for social media friendship jealousy.
  • Psychometric validation across three North American adult samples (N = 1300).
  • Longitudinal analysis of stability and bidirectional relations with internalizing symptoms over three years.

Main Results:

  • The developed measure demonstrated good validity, reliability, and stability.
  • Women and younger women reported higher levels of social media friendship jealousy.
  • Social media friendship jealousy correlated with lower friendship quality, increased social media use, trait jealousy, and predicted increases in internalizing symptoms.

Conclusions:

  • The new scale effectively measures social media friendship jealousy.
  • Social media friendship jealousy is a significant factor associated with negative friendship and mental health outcomes.
  • Individuals with internalizing symptoms may be particularly vulnerable to social media-related friendship jealousy.