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June 28, 2026British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Adolescents' use of Instagram for coping with stress

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ICI‐Ling ChenYTYee‐San Teoh

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Overview

Randomized trial examines how Instagram use for coping influences life satisfaction in adolescents, suggesting pathways for adaptive interventions.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how adolescents use Instagram as a coping resource and how stress and resilience influence their coping strategies.
  • Examined 375 Taiwanese high school students using an online questionnaire to assess stress, resilience, coping strategies, and Instagram use.
  • Analyzed responses from 280 participants who utilized Instagram for coping, identifying four distinct coping strategies.
  • Focused on the relationship between coping strategies and life satisfaction based on varying levels of stress and resilience.
  • Emotion-focused coping predicted higher life satisfaction, suggesting its importance in low stress-high resilience and high stress-low resilience groups.
  • Problem-focused coping was beneficial in the high stress-low resilience group, indicating its effectiveness under pressure.
  • Support-seeking coping was only effective in the low stress-high resilience group, highlighting its contextual dependency.

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Chen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a40ba8861bb0a67205c659ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.70058
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