The association between self-esteem and dimensions and classes of cross-platform social media use in a sample of emerging adults – Evidence from regression and latent class analyses

There is growing interest in the role of social media use in young people's mental health, and self-esteem has been hypothesised as a potential link in this association. However, existing studies have tended to use basic indicators of use in isolation and single-platform data, and further, have not controlled for other key variables. To address these limitations, emerging adults completed online questionnaires on social media engagement and...