Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing

• Published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 833 - 847
• Main Authors: Satici, Seydi Ahmet, Gocet Tekin, Emine, Deniz, M. Engin, Satici, Begum
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anxiety; Confirmatory factor analysis; COVID-19; Cross-sectional studies; Health research; Item response theory; Life satisfaction; Mass media; Measures; Medical research; Mental health; Network analysis; Pandemics; Personality; Personality traits; Political Science; Psychological distress; Quality of Life Research; Social media; Social networks; Social Sciences; Sociology; Structural equation modeling; Well being; Wellbeing; Personality; FOMO; Social media usage; Psychological distress; Doomscrolling

Doomscrolling is a fairly new concept in mental health research which has attracted significant attention in recent years. This paper consists of three separate studies examining doomscrolling. In Study I ( N  = 378), both 15-item and 4-item forms of Doomscrolling Scale (DS) were confirmed by confir...