TikTok style videos and mental health
Effects on stigma, self-pathologizing, and help-seeking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21621071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eliana V Claps (0009-0005-9154-4293, Idaho State University, corresponding author), Ailun Li (0000-0003-0440-1461, Idaho State University), Angelina Conrow (0000-0002-2354-3505, Idaho State University), Nathan Schiess (Idaho State University), Rhett Mullins (0000-0003-2903-8216, Idaho State University), Joshua K Swift (0000-0002-8340-542X, Idaho State University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 7082-7094 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12144-025-07716-z |
| OpenAlex | W4408774739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 42 |
Through various social media platforms, individuals learn, discuss, and describe their thoughts and opinions regarding mental health, which may influence how society interacts with mental health topics and services. TikTok is one of the more recent social media platforms to house a wide array of video content regarding mental health attitudes, symptoms, humor, and advice, which are all regularly absorbed and shared by individuals globally. The present study explored the influence of TikTok videos posted by non-mental health professionals on attitudes toward mental health stigma, self-pathologizing, and professional mental health treatment-seeking in a college sample with ages ranging from 18 to 60 ( M = 21.20, SD = 6.26). In a pre-post randomized-control design, participants completed dependent variable measures before and after viewing daily, brief mental health-related TikTok videos (experimental group) or non-mental health-related TikTok videos (control group) over two weeks. The results indicated that those who viewed mental health TikToks did not experience the increase in mental health stigma observed in the control group ( p p = .04). Further, TikTok content did not significantly impact perceptions of public stigma, treatment-seeking, or self-pathologizing. These results suggest that mental health social media content may be protective against some stigmatized beliefs, but it may not significantly impact perceptions of self and public stigma, treatment-seeking attitudes, or self-pathologizing
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |