Assessing the impact of Instagram use and deliberate self-harm in adolescents: a scoping review

Moss, Carla, Wibberley, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-6588 and Witham, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8575-7533 (2023) Assessing the impact of Instagram use and deliberate self-harm in adolescents: a scoping review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 32 (1). pp. 14-29. ISSN 1445-8330

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Abstract

The use of Instagram by adolescents to access deliberate self-harm content is a growing concern among scholars, mental health professionals and families, with many adolescents (10–19-year-olds) imitating offline what they have seen online. This scoping review aims to investigate the extent to which Instagram use impacts the mental health of its adolescent users, identifying if there is a relationship between time spent on Instagram and engagement in deliberate self-harm. The databases, Pubmed, Web of Science, Google scholar, APA PsycInfo, CINAHL and Child Development and Adolescent Studies were explored and after applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria 15 papers were included in this review. Thematic analysis indicated that there was a relationship between time spent on Instagram and deliberate self-harm; de-sensitisation of deliberate self-harm resulting in normalisation; social contagion and that Instagram provided a sense of belonging to its users who engaged in deliberate self-harm. Implications of this research is that it is quickly outdated as new social media platforms are developed and that the reliance on self-reports does not have high validity or reliability.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	15 Aug 2022 08:27
Publisher:	Wiley
Additional Information:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Moss, C., Wibberley, C. and Witham, G. (2022), Assessing the impact of Instagram use and deliberate self-harm in adolescents: A scoping review. Int J Mental Health Nurs., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13055. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
Divisions:	Faculties > Health and Education Research Centres > Health, Psychology and Communities
Subject terms:	Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Adolescent Behavior, Self-Injurious Behavior, Mental Health, Adolescent, Child, Self Report, Instagram, adolescents, deliberate self-harm, social media, Child, Humans, Adolescent, Self-Injurious Behavior, Reproducibility of Results, Self Report, Mental Health, Adolescent Behavior, 1110 Nursing, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1701 Psychology, Nursing
Data Access Statement:	Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/630244
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13055
ISSN	1445-8330
e-ISSN	1447-0349

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