The Association with Online Social Media Use: "Self" and Subjective Well-being of Teenagers

This paper aimed to study about the influence of online social media use. 2390 voluntary teenagers participated this survey, aged from 11 to 28, 1128 males and 1262 females (M-age=18.29, SD=3.61). This paper took online social media use, self-identity and subjective well-being as latent variables, self-esteem as observed variables, to construct a structural equation model and to discuss their association relationship and mechanism. The results showed that the use of social media online had direct and significant positive effects on self-identity and subjective wellbeing; but negative relationship with self-esteem; at the same time, online social media use, self-identity, self-esteem and subjective well-being had interrelated associations with each other, especially the mediating effect of self-esteem could positively predict subjective well-being.