Social Media Perceptions Among Young Adults With Cancer - Online Experiment 2

Young adults with cancer experience more loneliness than their non-cancer peers or older cancer survivors. Positive psychology interventions have promise to increase social connectedness; however, evidence-based interventions should be tailored for young adults with cancer and designed for social media. The investigators conducted an online experiment with young adults with cancer (ages 22-39) to examine the most promising message types with personal stories to identify a suite of intervention messages that encourage positive, in-person social interactions with strangers and acquaintances (i.e., weak ties).

Inclusion Criteria: * Participants must be 22-39 years old at the time of the study * Participants must have received a cancer diagnosis at any point between ages 15-39 * Participants must self-report low-to-moderate psychosocial quality of life (QOL), defined as an average rating of 4 or lower on the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) validated 2-item Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) global mental health scale (two 5-point items) * Participants must use social media Exclusion Criteria: * None