Fear of COVID-19, social media and psychological well-being of the Malaysian adolescents during pandemic towards endemicity: a systematic review

The use of social media for information transfer during the COVID-19 pandemic attracted the attention of diverse groups of researchers worldwide. The spread of misinformation on social media and other digital platforms has been deemed to be as much of a threat to public health as the virus itself. The increased fear of COVID-19 is among the prolonged impacts of social media misinformation and its influences on individuals’ psychological well-being indicate the robust digital information transfer. The current paper aims to analyse the exploratory relationship between COVID-19 fear and the psychological well-being of people through the use of social media during the pandemic and its prolonged condition in the endemic. A systematic review procedure is utilised to enable the multiple phenomena to be investigated during the COVID-19 pandemic, analysing the causal contribution of the different pandemic configurations towards the associated conditions for the outcomes during the endemic. Using reviews of the literature for illustrative comparison method of data synthesis in presenting themes development, the extraction method for inclusion criteria is performed for coding analysis. The significant impacts of the misuse of social media in information transfer and online communication, imply fear of COVID-19 fluctuates the psychological well-being among people.