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The good, the bad and the ugly: the relationship between the use of social media and inhibitory control in a response control task
| Resumo: | Given the current literature debate on whether or not Problematic Use of Social Media can be considered a behavioral addiction, the present study had the purpose to examine the differences between different levels of Social Media Addiction (no risk, at-risk and addicted) in inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility, in an Emotional Go/No-Go Task. Emotional stimuli included Social Media (SM) cues, and neutral stimuli were Traffic Signs (TS). The paradigm involved two main tasks: SM Go, where participants developed a response to SM stimuli and ignored TF cues and a TS Go, where the contrary response occurred. Order of conditions was randomized. Attentional bias and inhibitory control were inferred from the interaction level of addiction x Go-Condition, and cognitive flexibility by the interaction level of addiction x Order of the Go-Conditions. Results showed the presence of an attentional bias towards SM cues in SM Go-Condition in the at-risk and addicted groups, but only in SM Go-Condition. The addicted group also showed a significantly better discriminative ability in SM Go-Condition than the at-risk group, but only among those who started the paradigm with SM Go-Condition. A lower decision bias was equally seen in the addicted group in comparison to the no-risk group. With the growing use of SM, this study has some implications. These results suggest that individuals with low-medium SM addiction symptoms severity may just not be interested in controlling their SM use patterns, instead of having real deficits in inhibiting their behavior |
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| Autores principais: | Filipe, Diana Marques |
| Assunto: | Social Media Social media addiction Executive functions Go/no-go paradigm Inhibitory control Cognitive flexibility |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Resumo: | Given the current literature debate on whether or not Problematic Use of Social Media can be considered a behavioral addiction, the present study had the purpose to examine the differences between different levels of Social Media Addiction (no risk, at-risk and addicted) in inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility, in an Emotional Go/No-Go Task. Emotional stimuli included Social Media (SM) cues, and neutral stimuli were Traffic Signs (TS). The paradigm involved two main tasks: SM Go, where participants developed a response to SM stimuli and ignored TF cues and a TS Go, where the contrary response occurred. Order of conditions was randomized. Attentional bias and inhibitory control were inferred from the interaction level of addiction x Go-Condition, and cognitive flexibility by the interaction level of addiction x Order of the Go-Conditions. Results showed the presence of an attentional bias towards SM cues in SM Go-Condition in the at-risk and addicted groups, but only in SM Go-Condition. The addicted group also showed a significantly better discriminative ability in SM Go-Condition than the at-risk group, but only among those who started the paradigm with SM Go-Condition. A lower decision bias was equally seen in the addicted group in comparison to the no-risk group. With the growing use of SM, this study has some implications. These results suggest that individuals with low-medium SM addiction symptoms severity may just not be interested in controlling their SM use patterns, instead of having real deficits in inhibiting their behavior |
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