Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Social Media

Social media refers to internet-based platforms and applications that enable users to create, share and interact with user-generated content and to form networked communities through text, images and video. As a pervasive feature of contemporary life, social media shapes communication, identity, information exchange…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 10× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Social media refers to internet-based platforms and applications that enable users to create, share and interact with user-generated content and to form networked communities through text, images and video. As a pervasive feature of contemporary life, social media shapes communication, identity, information exchange and social comparison, and has become an important variable in psychological and public health research. Its use is studied both as a determinant of mental health and behaviour, through associations with body image, anxiety, depression, sleep, loneliness and health-related fixation, and as a tool for health promotion, recruitment, surveillance and the dissemination of information and misinformation. Mechanistically, engagement with social media interacts with reward processing, social comparison and reinforcement, with effects that vary by age, content and pattern of use. The peer-reviewed studies gathered here reflect these applications, examining whether social media contributes to unhealthy preoccupation with health, links between social media exposure and adolescent overweight, women's experiences after miscarriage across multiple platforms, recruitment strategies for prevention research, vaccine hesitancy, loneliness and bedtime procrastination, and behavioural change in tobacco control, illustrating how social media functions as both an object of study and a medium for intervention in clinical, behavioural and public health contexts.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 10 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Social Media, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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