Social Media Addiction, Intimate Relationships, and Social Anxiety

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10.2991/978-2-38476-509-6_92How to use a DOI?

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Media Addiction; Intimate Relationships; Social Anxiety

Abstract

In the current era of rapid digital technology development, social media has deeply permeated the lives of teenagers. While existing studies have explored the function of social media in intimate relationships and its impact on social anxiety, there is a lack of systematic analysis on the interaction mechanisms among social media addiction, intimate relationships, and social anxiety, especially in the dynamic correlations between addictive behaviors, emotional relationships, and anxiety psychology. This study, based on frameworks such as the Component Model and Love Triangle Theory, uses the literature analysis method to systematically sort out the characteristics of social media addiction, the “pure relationship” attribute of digital intimate relationships, and the contradictory of socially anxious individuals in virtual and real social interactions, and analyzes the bidirectional interaction mechanism among the three. Social media addiction interacts with intimate relationships and social anxiety, and it is recommended to intervene at the individual, family/school, and platform levels to alleviate the negative effects of digital socialization.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zixin Shen
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/15
TI  - Social Media Addiction, Intimate Relationships, and Social Anxiety
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Mental Growth and Human Resilience (MGHR 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 830
EP  - 837
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-509-6_92
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-509-6_92
ID  - Shen2025
ER  -