Lessons learned from Research Trends of Schools in Journal of Educational Technology for the Last Decade

Lee, Kyung-soon

doi:10.17232/kset.33.2.421

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“…These characteristics make Facebook, compared to other social media, a fertile environment for intense social interaction in different ways (Kowal et al 2020;Yeo and Ting 2017) and my explain why it is considered the most frequent tool of online communication among youth before and amid the period of the COVID-19 pandemic (Cunha et al 2016;Duimel and DeHaan 2007;Hashim et al 2020). Generally, it is worth mentioning that the majority (87%) of Facebook users are young adults (18-29 years old) during their academic life (Dritsas 2020;Duggan 2015;Statista 2019), who perceive it as an integral part of their daily lives, due to its significant academic and socio-interpersonal benefits (Lee and Winzenried 2009;Nikolopoulou and Gialamas 2016;Sciara et al 2021; Urhahne et al 2009).…”

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Pattern of Facebook use by university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: relations with loneliness and resilience

Touloupis

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Tachmatzidis

2023

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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Considering young adults’ extensive use of social media since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study examined the pattern of Facebook use by university students during the period of hygienic crisis. Specifically, it was investigated students’ Facebook intensity use and self-disclosure to unknown online friends, as well as the role of sense of resilience and loneliness in the manifestation of the above Facebook behaviors. Overall, 792 undergraduate and postgraduate university students (48% women) completed online self-report questionnaires regarding the above variables. Undergraduate students, regardless of gender and Department of studies, made more intense Facebook use and self-disclosure to unknown online friends. Sense of loneliness positively predicted students’ online self-disclosure not only directly but also indirectly through their Facebook intensity use. Students’ resilience negatively moderated the relationship between sense of loneliness and Facebook behaviors. The findings propose a new explanatory model of emotional and behavioral mechanisms, which leads to a less safe pattern of Facebook use. This pattern possibly reflects youth’s collective tendency to use this social media platform recklessly as a way out of crisis periods, such as the pandemic period. The emergence of this pattern could be useful for launching or enriching university counselling/prevention actions aimed at strengthening students’ psycho-emotional skills, and subsequently their prudent use of social media.

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