Here is the link to my 2025 chapter on mattering and social media use among children and adolescents in my book published by @APA. New unpublished research points to a central role for an unmet need to matter in problematic social media use:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-80…
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-80…
psycnet.apa.org Social media use and the need to matter. This chapter considers mattering and its relevance to social media use by young people. Why focus on social media use? First, accessing and being exposed to social media takes up a substantial... Great to see a @PsychToday analysis of the role of mattering in social media addiction. Less great was no mention of my new chapter or recent research on this topic. But the goal is to address this growing problem. Addressing the need to matter is the keyView quoted post on X
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