Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection

Current Directions in Psychological Science - Tập 27 Số 1 - Trang 32-37 - 2018
Jenna Clark1, Sara B. Algoe2, Melanie C. Green3
1Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University
2Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at, Chapel Hill
3Department of Communication, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tóm tắt

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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Current Directions in Psychological Science

Tập 27 Số 1

32-37

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