Identifying adolescent social media response in real-time: Risk and protective factors for Asian American mental health

项目摘要 截至2022年，几乎所有（95%）青少年报告每天至少使用一个社交媒体（SM）平台。 青少年倾向于与SM用户进行社会比较，这可能会对他们的生活产生负面影响。 自我概念（SC）。尽管SM对青少年的结果有着巨大的作用，但人们对SM是如何作用的却知之甚少。 SM使用影响SC，最终影响心理健康。此外，少数民族青少年可能面临 在册种姓在遭受间接或间接歧视时面临的额外风险，包括 在SM上看种族刻板印象确定亚裔美国人（AA）青少年对种族的反应- 基于SM的内容可以提供SM对心理调节的影响的关键信息， 少数民族青年。与其他种族/民族相比，AA青少年经历的在线欺凌最多 也报告了网上受害和接触陈规定型SM的最大增长 自2019冠状病毒病疫情开始以来，这项R21提案涉及135名AA青少年 填补了对SM内容的即时反应如何影响青少年SC的科学空白， 随后的心理健康。自然发生的，流行的或“病毒“的职位将被提出作为 实验刺激，以反映刻板或反刻板描绘的AA。SC将 通过一系列问题立即进行评估，以了解青少年如何看待自己， 他们如何将自己与其他人进行比较，以及他们或其他人是否会认为他们 种族群体积极或消极。长期目标是通过 对心理过程的直接评估，特别是青少年如何感受和解释 来自社交媒体帖子的消息。对认知行为疗法和正念的影响- 基于实践的青少年，我们的研究结果有可能提供基于证据的预期 为家长、临床医生和社区提供指导。我们的研究有以下目的：目的1。测试 刻板印象和反刻板印象种族相关SM内容与自我概念之间的关联 (SC)使用实验刺激，和（B）调查种族中心性（是否是亚洲人）如何 美国人是一个人身份的核心）缓和了这种联系。目标二。研究调解途径 种族相关SM内容暴露对心理健康和心理结果的影响。 探索目标。确定青少年如何识别社交媒体内容中的信息，包括 他们对种族信息的识别程度。这项工作的主要优势包括以下方面的普遍性： 通过使用真实的、病毒性SM帖子， 它的选择是与我们的青少年咨询委员会合作进行的AA青少年和其他AA 顾问。我们的方法来评估即时情感和认知反应SM有潜力， 产生关于青少年如何在线学习身份相关信息的突破性见解。

PROJECT ABSTRACT As of 2022, nearly all (95%) adolescents report using at least one social media (SM) platform daily. Adolescents are prone to engage in social comparison with SM users, which may negatively affect their self-concept (SC). Despite the outsized role of SM on adolescent outcomes, little is known about how SM use impacts SC and ultimately mental health. Furthermore, racial minority adolescents may face additional risks to SC when experiencing indirect or vicarious discrimination experiences, including viewing racial stereotypes on SM. Determining Asian American (AA) adolescent responses to race- based SM content can provide key information on the effects of SM on the psychological adjustment of racial minority youth. AA youth experience the most online bullying compared to other racial/ethnic groups and also reported the largest increase in online victimization and exposure to stereotypic SM content since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This R21 proposal involving 135 AA adolescents fulfills a gap in the science of how immediate responses to SM content may affect adolescent SC and subsequent mental health. Naturally occurring, popular or “viral ” posts will be presented as experimental stimuli to reflect either stereotypic or counter-stereotypic portrayals of AAs. SC will be assessed immediately through a series of questions to understand how adolescents view themselves, how they compare themselves to others in the post, and whether they or others might perceive their racial group positively or negatively. The long-term objective is to reveal modifiable targets through the direct assessments of psychological processes, specifically how adolescents feel and interpret the messages from social media posts. With implications for cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness- based practices for adolescents, our findings have potential for providing evidence-based anticipatory guidance for parents, clinicians, and communities. Our study has the following aims: Aim 1. To test associations between stereotype and counter stereotype race-related SM content and self-concept (SC) using experimental stimuli, and (b) To investigate how race centrality (whether being Asian American is central to one's identity) moderates the links. Aim 2. To examine the mediation pathways of race-related SM content exposure on mental health and psychological outcomes via SC. Exploratory Aim. To determine how adolescents identify messages in social media content, including the extent they identify racial messaging. The major strengths of this work include the generalizability of findings across SM platforms and enhanced ecological validity through the use of real, viral SM posts, with its selection conducted in collaboration with our youth advisory board of AA teens and other AA consultants. Our approach to assess immediate affective and cognitive response to SM has potential to yield groundbreaking insights on how adolescents learn identity-relevant information online.