Theoretical framework models social-media engagement impacts on digital well-being, suggesting essential dynamics for intervention.
Key Points
This work aims to develop a formal mathematical model that describes how social media engagement dynamics affect digital well-being across different demographics.
Constructed a continuous-time mathematical model to formalize engagement and validation dynamics.
Incorporated feedback between cumulative engagement and validation exposure, using demographic-specific functions.
Utilized Kalman filtering for state-space estimation and simulation of the model.
Demonstrated that engagement influences validation intensity through algorithmic mechanisms.
Showed nonlinear dynamics in cumulative engagement with behavioral decay characteristics.
Validated the model's ability to capture demographic variations in validation responses.