Adolescência, internet e saúde mental: uma revisão de escopo
Resumen
According to the literature, the advent of the Internet and virtual social networks
have increasingly crossed the daily lives of individuals in general, especially
adolescents and, although it already have points to indications of the existence
of a relationship between technological modernity, its fruits and the
psychosocial development of adolescents, studies that delve into this theme are
incipient. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to identify and
analyze, by means of a scoping review, studies and reports published in
national and international journals that relate adolescent mental health and
Internet use. For the project proposal, an active search was carried out in the
databases Scopus, Web Of Science and the Virtual Health Library (VHL), using
the descriptors: adolesc*, teenage*, young*, social networks, internet, online,
mental health and mental suffering, with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria
that selected thirty-four articles for the final sample.
The treatment and analysis of the results obtained were based on the steps
proposed by the Joanna Briggs-JBI Institute for scope reviews and after the
analysis of all productions, the results were organized into four distinct thematic
categories: 1) Harmful and indiscriminate use of digital social networks; 2)
Violence in the virtual environment - Cyberbullying and Cyber Vandalism; 3)
The internet as a means of exposure of mental suffering and 4) The internet as
a means/space of exposure of mental suffering. It was possible to conclude that
little was produced in the national literature, being the international literature the
great base for the study.
It was found that the adolescent public has become the central target of the
reach of the virtual world, and that this generates a direct impact on their daily
life, behavior, and relationships, which may cause or aggravate psychological
and emotional problems. It was also possible to verify that there is a
predominance of the female gender in the harmful use of social networks, and
that the virtual environment, as a powerful influencing link, may open a path for
the development of early intervention strategies and mental health promotion,
as there seems to be a greater tendency related to the exposure of feelings on
the internet. This theme has gained strength in recent years, highlighting the
growing problem and the need for new productions.
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