Davide Taibi|Lidia Scifo|Nicola Bruno|Giovanni Fulantelli
Social Media Literacy to Support a Conscious Use of Social Media in Adolescents and Improve Their Psychological Well-Being: A Pilot Study
National Research Council|National Research Council|Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta|National Research Council
social media important role adolescents daily life providing means communicating sharing representing creating maintaining relationships however social media hide risks users undermine mental wellbeing especially amongst adolescents exploratory research presented paper aims highlighting relationships conscious use social media adolescents psychological wellbeing particular present pilot study involving n 80 adolescents age 1620 designed analyse constructs mental wellbeing life satisfaction resilience relation capacity adolescents use social media adolescents randomly divided experimental group control group experimental group attended social media literacy course aimed raising participants awareness benefits pitfalls social media mannwhitney u test used assess statistically significant differences two groups respect age constructs investigation however test reported statistically significant values p gt 005 argue statistically significant differences could observed involving larger sample size seems confirmed low value power posteriori test variables considered sense pilot study paves way new research aimed investigating impact social media literacy adolescents psychological wellbeing