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Social Support and the Social Media Engagement about the Young Users

Xinyi GuRosedale Global High School*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

In this paper, we are going to explore the research question which is: “Is social media engagement related to social support among young people?” To assess the importance, this article investigates that the relationship between social support and social media engagement through several literature reviews. It has searched some themes about emotional impact, empathy, prosocial behaviour in the community, psychological health of adolescents, purchase intention and so on. In this work, the significance is to help teenagers better understand the influence of social media engagement and social support on their mental and psychological health. Also, the hypothesis in this paper is that engagement in social media is positively related to social support among young users. Social support can have positive emotional effects that promote social media engagement. This is also the focus of the article. Moreover, the innovation of the whole article is to focus on the young group.

Keywords: social support; social media engagement; young users; emotional impact; psychological health
Published: May 17, 2024
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/30/20231728
Volume: CHR Vol.30
pp. 146-150
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