Association between Facebook addiction, self-esteem and life satisfaction: A cross-sectional study

An Exploratory Study Of Facebook Intensity And Its Links To Narcissism, Stress, And Self-esteem

“…The current study supports previous research [2] that high narcissism and low self-esteem [21] can predict Facebook intensity usage, however, only with the inclusion of a stress criteria, in which, high levels of stress was also required in order to predict an increase in Facebook intensity usage. Narcissism alone may not have predicted an outcome in Facebook intensity usage due to the user's motives for using Facebook [32].…”

“…Self-esteem alone was also not found to be a significant predictor in Facebook usage. These findings contradict previous suggestions that self-esteem is related to an increase in internet use [19] increased Facebook use [23] and addiction [2] and supports Lee [22] who found self-esteem not to be a predictor for the amount of time spent on Facebook. Stress was found to be the only significant predictor for Facebook usage, in which higher levels of perceived stress predicted higher levels of Facebook intensity usage.…”

“…Although this study does not relate directly to Facebook, findings can be generalised as Facebook offers users the ability to do all the aforementioned activities on its site. Similarly, Blachnio et al [2] found statistical differences between ordinary Facebook users and both addicted and intensive users, where low self-esteem and life satisfaction related to increased Facebook use and addiction. This suggests that those with low self-esteem resort to increased Facebook use as a strategy to cope and to enhance their mood.…”

“…In 1995, less than 1% of the world population had internet access, since then, this figure has increased tenfold equating to more than three billion internet users worldwide [1][2][3]. Statistics for internet access in Great Britain [4] show figures for adult internet users accessing the internet every or almost every day has more than doubled since 2006, from 16.2 million to 39.3 million, equating to 78% of the adult population.…”

Facebook addiction and depression in adults [19 years-64 years]

“…This may be due to the process of habituation, characteristic for addiction. 19 The relationship between Facebook usage and academic performance where Facebook users were seen to spend less time studying than the other students was noted in a studies which lead to poorer grades. 20,21 But as mentioned earlier most of the studies have been done in adolescents and occasionally in young adults.…”