WellBeing and Social Media: A Systematic Review of Bergen Addiction Scales Does social media addiction impair the wellbeing of nonclinical individuals? Despite the Internet being able to be considered as a promoting factor for individual empowerment, previous literature suggests that the current massive availability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may be dangerous for usersu0027 wellbeing. This article discusses the relationship between the most used social media addiction measures (i.e., the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scalexe2x80x94BFAS, the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scalexe2x80x94BSMAS) and wellbeing. A systematic review considering all the publications indexed by PsycInfo, PsycArticles, PubMed, Science Direct, Sociological Abstracts, Academic Search Complete, and Google Scholar databases was performed to collect the data. Ten of 635 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis. Overall, most of the included works captured a negative but small relationship between BFASBSMAS and wellbeing, across multiple definitions and measurement.

The buffering effect of flow experience on the relationship between overload and social media usersxe2x80x99 discontinuance intentions Abstract   There is a growing need to understand why users discontinue using social media platforms. Understanding the antecedents of such decisions and the moderators that govern the antecedent effects can help users reach such decisions, and assist service providers in mitigating them. From a theoretical standpoint, there is a need to enrich the theoretical account of social media discontinuance phenomena. To address these issues, we integrate the xe2x80x9cstimulusorganismresponsexe2x80x9d (SOR) framework and flow theory. We consequently portray the direct, indirect and moderating roles of flow experience in mitigating discontinuance intentions. We test this model via a survey of 502 WeChat users. The results support the SOR model and indicate that social overload, information overload, and communication overload (stimuli) increase the fatigue feelings (organism) of social media users, which, in turn, increase their social media discontinuance intentions (response). By combining the SOR perspective with flow theory, we show that flow experience not only help reduce usersxe2x80x99 perceptions of fatigue and discontinuance intentions, but also moderate (weaken) the effects of fatigue on discontinuance intentions. Flow experience, therefore, serves as a means to inhibit the formation of social media discontinuance intentions, even when overload and fatigue persist. The present research also has several valuable theoretical and practical implications.