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Facebook use and depressive symptomatology: Investigating the role of neuroticism and extraversion in youth
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The popularity of social networking sites, such as Facebook, has increased rapidly over the past decade, especially among youth. Consequently, the impact of Facebook use on mental health problems (e.g., depressive symptomatology) has become a recent area of concern. Yet, evidence for such a link has been mixed and factors that contribute to heterogeneity of findings have not been identified. In this study, we examined whether the association between Facebook use and depressive symptoms is moderated by individual factors (i.e., personality and sex). To this end, we measured Facebook use, depressive symptoms, and personality domains (i.e., extroversion and neuroticism) among 237 young adults. No direct association was found between Facebook use and depressive symptoms. However, for females with high neuroticism, more frequent Facebook use was associated with lower depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest a complex relationship between Facebook use and depressive symptomatology that appears to vary by sex and personality. Facebook use may be protective against depressive symptoms for female users with high levels of neuroticism, while Facebook use may be unrelated to depressive symptoms among males.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Simoncic, T. E., Kuhlman, K. R., Vargas, I., Houchins, S., & Lopez-Duran, N. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- ORCID
- Kuhlman, Kate R.
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-11
- Volume
- 40
- Pages
- 1-5
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4386284
- OpenAlex
- W2039553142
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 32.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH015750)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- Facebook use, social networking sites, depressive symptoms, neuroticism, extraversion, personality, sex differences, young adults, mental health, moderating effect
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