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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Social media is integral to daily life, raising public health concerns about problematic use.
  • Debate exists on whether excessive social media use constitutes behavioral addiction (impulsivity) or impulse control disorder (compulsivity).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate impulsivity and compulsivity in excessive social media users using neurocognitive tasks.
  • To compare neurocognitive differences between excessive and non-excessive social media users.

Main Methods:

  • 79 participants (18-37 years) were divided into excessive (n=34) and non-excessive (n=45) social media user groups.
  • Utilized questionnaires for demographics, social media use, impulsivity, compulsivity, anxiety, and depression.
  • Administered computerized cognitive tasks: GO/NO-GO, Experimental Delay Discounting (EDT), and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST).

Main Results:

  • Excessive users showed lower delay gratification (EDT), indicating impulsivity.
  • Impaired selective attention was observed in excessive users on the GO/NO-GO task (more omission errors for "Facebook" stimuli).
  • Higher subjective ratings of anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and compulsivity were reported by excessive users.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support impulsivity and impaired selective attention in excessive social media users, aligning with a behavioral addiction model.
  • Lack of evidence for compulsivity suggests it may not be an impulse control disorder.
  • Further neurocognitive research is needed to classify excessive social media use.