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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1503049
This article is part of the Research Topic Applications of Mindfulness in Media and Communication Studies View all 6 articles
Mindfulness Cognitive-Based Therapy Combined with Metaphor Therapy Can Improve Problematic Social Media Use
Provisionally accepted
Weirui Xiong *
Lu Yu - Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
Problematic Social Media Use (PSMU) refers to an individual's long-term, high-intensity use of social media. Although this behavior is not pathological, it has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of individuals. In the past, intervention methods used for PSMU often controlled behavior to reduce the usage time of individual social media platforms. However, because psychological needs satisfaction and unreasonable cognition that lead to the problematic use of social media by individuals are not considered, behavior-based treatment models often do not address this problem. Method: 30 participants with PSMU (with another 30 participants as a control group) participated in an intervention program of mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy (MBCT) combined with metaphor therapy (MT). Results: The results showed that these therapies changed the participants' cognition and behavior and achieved a good intervention effect. Conclusion: The MBCT combined with MT can be used as an intervention for patients with PSMU.
Keywords: Problematic social media use, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Metaphor therapy, Social Media, Meditation
Received: 28 Sep 2024; Accepted: 05 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Weirui Xiong, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
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