Related Metacognitions, Desire Thinking and Identity Differentially Predict Compulsion and Withdrawal Symptoms in Problematic Instagram Use
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Albery, I., Noriega, M.R and Frings, D. (2024). Related Metacognitions, Desire Thinking and Identity Differentially Predict Compulsion and Withdrawal Symptoms in Problematic Instagram Use. Addictive Behaviors. 156, p. 108043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108043
Authors | Albery, I., Noriega, M.R and Frings, D. |
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Abstract | Work has identified that metacognitive thought results in desire-based thinking and perpetuates the magnitude and severity of maladaptive behaviour including problematic social media use, and also that one’s ingroup identity is related to increasing problematic behaviour. No evidence has ascertained the relative contribution of these as related differential factors in the experience of problematic social media use. The current study explored the comparative importance of components of desire thinking, positive and negative metacognitions and dimensions of ingroup identity on degree of problematic use among 147 current Instagram users. Results showed that for predicting general problematic Instagram use negative metacognitive beliefs and the verbal perseverance component of desire-based thinking were significant. Importantly, however, different factors appeared to be important for predicting distinct aspects of problematic Instagram. For compulsivity indicators, negative metacognitions and verbal perseveration were essential, whereas for the withdrawal component identity centrality (and no other dimensions of identity) and imaginal prefiguration emerge as the sole independent predictors. |
Keywords | Instagram use; in-group identification; identity centrality; positive metacognitive beliefs; negative metacognitive beliefs; desire thinking; verbal perseveration; imaginal prefiguration. |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Addictive Behaviors |
Journal citation | 156, p. 108043 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 1873-6327 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108043 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460324000923 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 07 May 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 20 Apr 2024 |
Deposited | 24 Apr 2024 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Controlled |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/97049
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