Does Facebook make you lonely?: A meta analysis

Song, Hayeon; Zmyslinski-Seelig, Anne; Kim, Jin‐Young; Drent, Adam M.; Victor, Angela; Omori, Kikuko; Allen, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.011

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“…"ccording to what we currently know, no directionality can be assumed. However, much like in the meta-analysis on Facebook and loneliness [21], in this case, social anxiety can predict social media use rather than the other way around.…”

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“…In a meta-analysis including eighteen papers on the relationship between Facebook use and loneliness, it resulted that the two variables were signiicantly associated and that loneliness predicted Facebook use and not the other way around [21]. Facebook use had a signiicant contribution to mental health, with Facebook use, impression management and friends predicting mood disorders, with diferent contributions across disorders (having more friends is negatively associated with major depression and dysthymia, while positively predicting mania) [22].…”

Section: Adult Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of Social Media on Social Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Dobrean¹,

Păsărelu²

2016

New Developments in Anxiety Disorders

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Introduction: Online social networking sites are being used all around the world. However, only recently researchers have started to investigate their relationship with mental health. Evidence coming from literature suggests that they have both advantages and disadvantages for individuals. The aim of this study is to critically review the existent research conducted on the relationship between online social networking and social anxiety.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Adult Studiesmentioning

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Impact of Social Media on Social Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Dobrean¹,

Păsărelu²

2016

New Developments in Anxiety Disorders

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“…Similarly, Spek et al (2007) reported positive effects of Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy, even when this was without therapist support. A less optimistic picture emerges from a meta-study of Facebook-related research: Song et al (2014) found a correlation between Facebook usage and loneliness, although they claim that loneliness is more likely a cause than a consequence of Facebook use. As far as we know few studies have linked use of online coping strategies to wellbeing (like we do in our fourth research question How are online coping and well-being correlated, when controlling for off-line coping?).…”

Section: Internet Use and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Coping After Negative Life Events

Ingen

Utz

Toepoel

2016

Social Science Computer Review

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This article explores how individuals use online coping strategies after experiencing a negative life event. Many studies have shown that online coping is of rising importance. However, these studies have not provided all pieces of the puzzle because they tend to focus on one particular online venue (e.g., an online support group or social network site [SNS]) and on a limited number of coping strategies. This article aims to provide a more complete picture, by simultaneously examining multiple online and off-line coping strategies, using a survey administered to a representative sample of the 16þ population of the Netherlands. Furthermore, we analyze what kind of Internet activities are related to online coping and whether online coping is associated with well-being. Some 57% of our sample mentioned some form of online coping. Using the Internet for mental disengagement, active coping and planning were the most reported online coping strategies, whereas strategies aimed at emotional coping were reported less frequently. Online coping encompassed several activities: online gaming, which was associated with mental disengagement; searching for information, which was associated with problem-focused coping; and SNS and online support groups, which were associated with mental disengagement, problem-focused coping, and socioemotional coping. Finally, we examined the correlations between online coping and well-being. Controlling for off-line coping, we found online mental disengagement and online socioemotional coping to be inversely related to life satisfaction, self-esteem, and optimism, whereas correlations between online problem-focused coping and well-being were nonsignificant. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…The conditions associated with excessive Internet use, or dependence on the Internet among the students, could make them experiencing Problematic Internet Use (PIU). Some studies reported that there was a relationship between loneliness with PIU (Caplan, 2002;Morahan-Martin & Schumacher, 2003;Song, Zymslinski-Seelig, Kim, Drent, Victor, & Omori, 2014;Andangsari & Dhowi, 2016). Loneliness becomes the antecedence of PIU or it has the role as prior psychopathology to PIU (Davis, 2001;Caplan, 2002;Griffiths, Kuss, Billieux, & Pontes, 2016).…”

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Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use (PIU) as Causes of Academic Procrastination

Andangsari

Djunaidi

Fitriana

et al. 2018

IJSSS

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It is now undeniable that young people and the Internet has become inseparable. Nonetheless, the uncontrolled use of it causes many problems among young adults including academic procrastination. Previous studies stated that academic procrastination lead to low of academic achievement. The reason of why young adults use the internet excessively and got negative outcomes in academic life did not stated clearly. The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence of PIU as a mediator between loneliness and academic procrastination. Sample consisted of 320 undergraduate students from 10 universities. Age range was 17-25 years old (M=20.17, SD=1.49). They were given three self-report questionnaires such as GPIUS2, SELSA, and TPS. Those instruments were adapted in Indonesian language. Data were analyzed with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results showed that the model was good fit (χ2=416.541, df=205, p<0.001, CFI=0.902, TLI=0.879, SRMR=0.068, RMSEA=0.057, 90% CI:0.049-0.065, p good to fit 0.05). This study give contribution on loneliness, PIU, and academic procrastination as one model. It also gives implication of social media using among young people and policy making in universities about students life.

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Does Facebook make you lonely?: A meta analysis

Cited by 343 publications

References 27 publications

Impact of Social Media on Social Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Impact of Social Media on Social Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Online Coping After Negative Life Events

Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use (PIU) as Causes of Academic Procrastination

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