The digital footprints of adolescent depression, social rejection and victimization of bullying on Facebook

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Highlights:

• Two consecutive studies investigated whether and how Social Network Sites (SNS) can be used to detect adolescents' distress.

• Study 1 focused on explicit references to distress and Study 2 also examined less explicit Facebook activities.

• Explicit depression references were rare, but when they appeared they predicted "real life", offline depression.

• Social rejection and victimization of bullying can also be detected through less explicit, digital footprints.

• These digital footprints include for example 'posts by others', 'gothic and dark content', and 'other people in pictures'.

摘要

•Two consecutive studies investigated whether and how Social Network Sites (SNS) can be used to detect adolescents' distress.•Study 1 focused on explicit references to distress and Study 2 also examined less explicit Facebook activities.•Explicit depression references were rare, but when they appeared they predicted "real life", offline depression.•Social rejection and victimization of bullying can also be detected through less explicit, digital footprints.•These digital footprints include for example 'posts by others', 'gothic and dark content', and 'other people in pictures'.

论文关键词:Adolescents,Digital footprints,Depression,Social rejection,Bullying,Social networking sites

论文评审过程:Received 1 July 2018, Revised 20 September 2018, Accepted 21 September 2018, Available online 22 September 2018, Version of Record 27 September 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.09.025