1,838
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Scientific and Technical

Each post matters: a content analysis of #mentalhealth images on Instagram

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 128-138 | Received 02 Apr 2020, Accepted 09 Jun 2020, Published online: 09 Jul 2020

References

  • Ali, K., Farrer, L., Gulliver, A., & Griffiths, K. M. (2015). Online peer-to-peer support for young people with mental health problems: A systematic review. JMIR Mental Health, 2, e19. https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.4418
  • Ancker, J. S., Senathirajah, Y., Kukafka, R., & Starren, J. B. (2006). Design features of graphs in health risk communication: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13, 608–618. https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2115
  • Andalibi, N., Ozturk, P., & Forte, A. (2015). Depression-related imagery on instagram. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, New York, NY. 231–234. https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2699014
  • Avram, H. (2018). Moving images, mobile bodies: The poetics and practice of corporeality in visual and performing arts. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Bachmann, P. (2020). Public marketing: Case of self-governing regions’ brands in online environment. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Hradec Economic Days 2020, Hradec Kralove. https://doi.org/10.36689/uhk/hed/2020-01-003
  • Bond, C.F., & Anderson, E.L. (1987). The reluctance to transmit bad news: Private discomfort or public display? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 23, 176–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1031(87)90030-8
  • Brewer, M.B. (1991). The social self: On being the same and different at the same time. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 475–482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167291175001
  • Brosius, H.-B., & Bathelt, A. (1994). The utility of exemplars in persuasive communications. Communication Research, 21, 48–78. https://doi.org/10.1177/009365094021001004
  • Cavazos-Rehg, P.A., Krauss, M.J., Sowles, S.J., Connolly, S., Rosas, C., Bharadwaj, M., … Bierut, L.J. (2017). An analysis of depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation content on tumblr. Crisis, 38, 44–52. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000409
  • Chandler, D., & Munday, R. (2011). Visual persuasion. A dictionary of media and communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Choudhury, M. D., & De, S. (2014). Mental health discourse on reddit: Self-disclosure, social support, and anonymity. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014, Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM14/paper/403view/8075
  • Davidson, L., Bellamy, C., Guy, K., & Miller, R. (2012). Peer support among persons with severe mental illnesses: A review of evidence and experience. World Psychiatry: Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 11, 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.05.009
  • Dibble, J.L., & Levine, T.R. (2013). Sharing good and bad news with friends and strangers: Reasons for and communication behaviors associated with the MUM effect. Communication Studies, 64, 431–452. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2013.770407
  • Downe‐Wamboldt, B. (1992). Content analysis: Method, applications, and issues. Health Care for Women International, 13, 313–321. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399339209516006
  • Duggan, M. (2015, August 19). Mobile messaging and social media 2015. Retrieved from Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech website https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/08/19/mobile-messaging-and-social-media-2015/
  • Federal Trade Commission. (2019). Disclosures 101 for social media influencers. Retrieved from https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/1001a-influencer-guide-508_1.pdf
  • Gibson, R., & Zillmann, D. (2000). Reading between the photographs: The influence of incidental pictorial information on issue perception. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 77, 355–366. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769900007700209
  • Gilster, M.E., Kleinschmit, J.L., Cummings, S.P., & Ronnenberg, M.M. (2020). Teaching note—pick your platform: Social media advocacy skill building. Journal of Social Work Education, 56, 170–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1593903
  • Gowen, K., Deschaine, M., Gruttadara, D., & Markey, D. (2012). Young adults with mental health conditions and social networking websites: Seeking tools to build community. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35, 245–250. https://doi.org/10.2975/35.3.2012.245.250
  • Grayson, K., & Martinec, R. (2004). Consumer perceptions of iconicity and indexicality and their influence on assessments of authentic market offerings. Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 296–312. https://doi.org/10.1086/422109
  • Harrison, B. (2002). Seeing health and illness worlds – using visual methodologies in a sociology of health and illness: A methodological review. Sociology of Health & Illness, 24, 856–872. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.00322
  • Haslam, S.A., Jetten, J., Postmes, T., & Haslam, C. (2009). Social identity, health and well-being: An emerging agenda for applied psychology. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 58, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00379.x
  • Hayes, A.F., & Krippendorff, K. (2007). Answering the call for a standard reliability measure for coding data. Communication Methods and Measures, 1, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312450709336664
  • Heuer, C.A., McClure, K.J., & Puhl, R.M. (2011). Obesity stigma in online news: A visual content analysis. Journal of Health Communication, 16, 976–987. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2011.561915
  • Ivey-Stephenson, A.Z., Crosby, A.E., Jack, S.P.D., Haileyesus, T., & Kresnow-Sedacca, M. (2017). Suicide trends among and within urbanization levels by sex, race/ethnicity, age group, and mechanism of death - United States, 2001–2015. MMWR. Surveillance Summaries, 66, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6618a1
  • Jensen, J.D. (2011). Addressing Health Literacy in the design of health messages. In Cho, H (Ed.), Health communication message design: Theory and practice (pp. 171–190). Sage.
  • Jin, S.V., Phua, J., & Lee, K.M. (2015). Telling stories about breastfeeding through Facebook: The impact of user-generated content (UGC) on pro-breastfeeding attitudes. Computers in Human Behavior, 46, 6–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.046
  • Kann, L., Olsen, E.O., McManus, T., Harris, W.A., Shanklin, S.L., Flint, K.H., … Zaza, S. (2016). Sexual identity, sex of sexual contacts, and health-related behaviors among students in grades 9-12 - United States and Selected Sites, 2015. MMWR. Surveillance Summaries, 65, 1–202. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6509a1
  • Kaplan, A.M., & Haenlein, M. (2010). Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media. Business Horizons, 53, 59–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2009.09.003
  • King, A.J. (2015). A content analysis of visual cancer information: Prevalence and use of photographs and illustrations in printed health materials. Health Communication, 30, 722–731. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2013.878778
  • King, A.J. (2016). Visual exemplification and skin cancer: The utility of exemplars in promoting skin self-exams and atypical nevi identification. Journal of Health Communication, 21, 826–836. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2016.1177143
  • Kimbrough, A.M., Guadagno, R.E., Muscanell, N.L., & Dill, J. (2013). Gender differences in mediated communication: Women connect more than do men. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 896–900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.12.005
  • King, A.J., Niederdeppe, J., & Dahl, E. (2020). Visual juxtapositions as exemplars in messages promoting healthy dietary behavior. Health Communication, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1748835
  • Kisner, J. (2017, March 14). The politics of conspicuous displays of self-care. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-politics-of-selfcare
  • Lee, E., Lee, J.-A., Moon, J.H., & Sung, Y. (2015). Pictures speak louder than words: Motivations for using Instagram. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 18, 552–556. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2015.0157
  • Lipkus, I.M. (2007). Numeric, verbal, and visual formats of conveying health risks: Suggested best practices and future recommendations. Med Decis Making, 27, 696–713. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X07307271
  • McCarthy, K. (2019). Why people are turning to Instagram for their therapy needs. Good Morning America. Retrieved from https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/people-turning-instagram-therapy-mental-health-64105639
  • Mckenna, K.Y.A., & Bargh, J.A. (1998). Coming out in the age of the intemet: Identity “demarginalization” through virtual group participation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 681–694. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.681
  • Merikangas, K.R., He, J.-P., Burstein, M., Swanson, S.A., Avenevoli, S., Cui, L., … Swendsen, J. (2010). Lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in U.S. adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). ). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49, 980–989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2010.05.017
  • Messaris, P. (1997). Visual persuasion: The role of images in advertising. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452233444
  • Moorhead, S.A., Hazlett, D.E., Harrison, L., Carroll, J.K., Irwin, A., & Hoving, C. (2013). A New dimension of health care: Systematic review of the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15, e85. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1933
  • Naslund, J.A., Grande, S.W., Aschbrenner, K.A., & Elwyn, G. (2014). Naturally occurring peer support through social media: The experiences of individuals with severe mental illness using YouTube. Plos One, 9, e110171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110171
  • Painter, J.E., Borba, C.P.C., Hynes, M., Mays, D., & Glanz, K. (2008). The use of theory in health behavior research from 2000 to 2005: a systematic review. Ann Behav Med, 35, 358–362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-008-9042-y
  • Pew Research Center. (2019). Demographics of social media users and adoption in the United States. Retrieved from Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech website: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/
  • Quinn, D.M., Williams, M.K., Quintana, F., Gaskins, J.L., Overstreet, N.M., Pishori, A., … Chaudoir, S.R. (2014). Examining effects of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, internalization, and outness on psychological distress for people with concealable stigmatized identities. PloS One, 9, e96977. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096977
  • Radovic, A., Gmelin, T., Stein, B.D., & Miller, E. (2017). Depressed adolescents’ positive and negative use of social media. Journal of Adolescence, 55, 5–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.12.002
  • Reece, A.G., & Danforth, C.M. (2017). Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression. EPJ Data Science, 6, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0110-z
  • Ridout, B., & Campbell, A. (2018). The use of social networking sites in mental health interventions for young people: Systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20, e12244. https://doi.org/10.2196/12244
  • Rimé, B. (2009). Emotion elicits the social sharing of emotion: Theory and empirical review. Emotion Review, 1, 60–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073908097189
  • Santos, M. (2019, October 10). These illustrations on instagram are making mental health easier to talk about. Bustle Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.bustle.com/p/mental-health-illustrations-on-instagram-create-community-18796864
  • Seidman, G. (2013). Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 402–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.009
  • Sheldon, P., & Bryant, K. (2016). Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism and contextual age. Computers in Human Behavior, 58, 89–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.059
  • Silenzio, V.M.B., Pena, J.B., Duberstein, P.R., Cerel, J., & Knox, K.L. (2007). Sexual orientation and risk factors for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among adolescents and young adults. American Journal of Public Health, 97, 2017–2019. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.095943
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2018). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. SMA 18-5068, NSDUH Series H-53). Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/
  • Tajfel, H., & Turner, J.C. (1985). The social identity theory of intergroup behavior. In S. Worchel, & W.G. Austin (Eds.), Psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 7–24). Nelson-Hall.
  • Tiggemann, M., & Zaccardo, M. (2018). ‘Strong is the new skinny’: A content analysis of #fitspiration images on Instagram . Journal of Health Psychology, 23, 1003–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316639436
  • Tiller, J.W. (2013). Depression and anxiety. The Medical Journal of Australia, 199, S28–S31. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja12.10628
  • Välimäki, M., Athanasopoulou, C., Lahti, M., & Adams, C.E. (2016). Effectiveness of social media interventions for people with schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18, e92. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5385
  • Weinstein, N.D. (1993). Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior. Health Psychology, 12, 324–333. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.12.4.324
  • Ye, Z., Hashim, N.H., Baghirov, F., & Murphy, J. (2018). Gender differences in Instagram Hashtag use. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 27, 386–404. https://doi.org/10.1080/19368623.2018.1382415
  • Yoo, W. (2016). The influence of celebrity exemplars on college students’ smoking. Journal of American College Health, 64, 48–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2015.1074238

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.