Reissmann, Andreas and Hauser, Joachim and Stollberg, Ewelina and Kaunzinger, Ivo and Lange, Klaus W. (2018) The role of loneliness in emerging adults' everyday use of facebook - An experience sampling approach. COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 88. pp. 47-60. ISSN 0747-5632, 1873-7692
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Previous empirical evidence has shown that the psychological experience of loneliness is associated with increased levels of media use, indicative of a remedial attempt to cope with the aversive psychological experience. Since social media have been shown to provide users with many different ways of meeting their interpersonal needs, the present study investigates the occurrence of such loneliness-associated uses of the social network site Facebook within the context of everyday life. Adopting an experience sampling methodology (ESM), a sample of 65 participants was recruited from a local university and was followed for a study period of two weeks. Subjects were requested to assess their emotional state and the level of Facebook use several times a day using a fixed interval assessment schedule. Statistical analyses using multilevel analysis indicated that state feelings of loneliness were predictive of a subsequent increase in Facebook use. Moreover, the size of this effect varied across persons and was shown to be highly contingent upon several psychosocial traits, including gender, social insecurity, Facebook addiction and cross-situational levels of (trait) loneliness. These findings of person-dependent, emotion regulatory uses of social media services such as Facebook may be of relevance for understanding both adaptive and maladaptive uses of online technology. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed and several recommendations for future studies made.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; MOOD MANAGEMENT; INTERNET USE; ADDICTION; ANXIETY; MODEL; GRATIFICATIONS; PATTERNS; SHYNESS; Loneliness; Experience sampling; Multilevel analysis; Uses & gratifications; Facebook; Social media |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie III (Biologische, Klinische und Rehabilitationspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Klaus W. Lange |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2019 09:00 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 09:00 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/13588 |
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