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Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being?
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The Internet could change the lives of average citizens as much as did the telephone in the early part of the 20th century and television in the 1950s and 1960s. Researchers and social critics are debating whether the Internet is improving or harming participation in community life and social relationships. This research examined the social and psychological impact of the Internet on 169 people in 73 households during their first 1 to 2 years on-line. We used longitudinal data to examine the effects of the Internet on social involvement and psychological well-being. In this sample, the Internet was used extensively for communication. Nonetheless, greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in participants' communication with family members in the household, declines in the size of their social circle, and increases in their depression and loneliness. These findings have implications for research, for public policy and for the design of technology.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V., Kiesler, S., Mukophadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- ORCID
- Kraut, Robert
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1017-1031
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W2147050295
- Cited by
- 4,793
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 340.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- internet use, social engagement, psychological well-being, depression, loneliness, family communication, social networks, interpersonal relationships, technology and society, online communication
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Family Health, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mental Health, Pennsylvania, Social Isolation, Linear Models, Internet
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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