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Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection
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In the early days of the Internet, both conventional wisdom and scholarship deemed online communication a threat to well-being. Later research has complicated this picture, offering mixed evidence about how technology-mediated communication affects users. With the dawn of social network sites, this issue is more important than ever. A close examination of the extensive body of research on social network sites suggests that conflicting results can be reconciled by a single theoretical approach: the interpersonal-connection-behaviors framework. Specifically, we suggest that social network sites benefit their users when they are used to make meaningful social connections and harm their users through pitfalls such as isolation and social comparison when they are not. The benefits and drawbacks of using social network sites shown in existing research can largely be explained by this approach, which also posits the need for studying specific online behaviors in future research.
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“online social networking site use tends to be related to less internalizing, to the extent that it includes positive interactions, enhances social support, and facilitates social connectedness”
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“tends to be associated with more internalizing in instances when it is excessive, reduces time spent in in-person interactions, and in which interactions are negative or involve social comparisons”
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BackgroundDeterminants of Privacy Protection Behavior in Social Networking Sites
Suhaimi, S., Fadzilah, N., Syahirah, R., Anawar, S., Ayop, Z., & Feresa, C. (2020) · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2020.0111236 · Cited by 4
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“…negative emotions and experiences, including (malicious) envy (de Ven & Zeelenberg, 2020), a fear of missing out (Servidio et al., 2021), a sense of disconnection (Clark et al., 2018), low self-esteem (Tibber et al., 2020), anxiety and depression (McCarthy & Morina, 2020; Tibber et al., 2024).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Clark, J. L., Algoe, S. B., & Green, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Clark, Jenna L.
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-12-19
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 32-37
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- OpenAlex
- W2776212678
- Cited by
- 451
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 65 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 85 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 44.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Digital Media and Philosophy
- Keywords
- social network sites, well-being, social connectedness, social isolation, social comparison, online communication, technology-mediated communication, online behavior
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