Is Facebook creating iDisorders? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety
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...…disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors to reduce the anxiety caused by these obsessive thoughts, while obsessive–compulsive personality disorder is a lifelong pattern of perfectionism and control (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)....
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...According to the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000), narcissistic personality disorder is an Axis II disorder marked by a grandiose sense of self-importance, fantasies of unlimited power, self-promotion, vanity, and superficial relationships....
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...Some research has indicated significant positive associations between social networking activities and depressive symptoms while other recent studies have shown no relationship or even, in one condition, a negative relationship, between Facebook use and depression. According to Davila et al. (2012), ‘‘depressive symptoms were associated with quality of social networking interactions, not quantity’’ (p....
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...According to the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000), narcissistic personality disorder is an Axis II disorder marked by a grandiose sense of self-importance, fantasies of unlimited power, self-promotion, vanity, and superficial relationships. Twenge and Campbell (2009) argued that narcissism is an ‘‘epidemic’’ that has escalated in the past two decades. Using a cross-sectional study of more than 16,000 college students, Twenge and Campbell found that today’s college students score substantially higher on the Narcissism Personality Inventory than their cohorts just 20 years ago. In fact, two-thirds of recent college students scored above the average (Raskin & Shaw, 1988) compared to half of the college students who took the same test in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bergman, Fearrington, Davenport, and Bergman (2011) suggested that narcissism is increasing due to generational values. He posits that younger generations—including the Net Generation, born in the 1980s, and the iGeneration, born in the 1990s (Rosen, Carrier, & Cheever, 2010)—show a strong urge to report their activities and believe that their social media audience cares about them, two symptoms central to the diagnostic criteria of narcissistic personality disorder. Further studies suggest that narcissism is exacerbated, and even encouraged, by social networking sites (Bergman et al., 2011; Buffardi & Campbell, 2008; Carpenter, 2012; McKinney, Kelly, & Duran, 2012; Ryan & Xenos, 2011) perhaps due to the rapid rise in social networking sites that encourage users to post status updates and photos and comment on others’ posts and photos. For example, on these sites, people often report the existence of superficial friendships, self-promotion by way of customizable pages, and vanity by way of photo albums capable of carrying thousands of pictures (Bergman et al., 2011). Mehdizadeh (2010) proposed that it is the controlled environment of these webpages that appeals to the narcissist; users of social networking sites may contort their profile pictures, status updates, biographies, and even lists of friends in order to appear more attractive. Mehdizadeh’s hypothesis is supported by research demonstrating that higher scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory predicted higher self-promotion on social networking sites (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008) as well as more use of personal pronouns such as I and me along with more self-promoting photos on Facebook pages (DeWall, Buffardi, Bonser, & Campbell, 2011). Other research has shown that more time spent on Facebook and a higher frequency of checking Facebook predicted higher narcissism scores (Mehdizadeh, 2010; Ryan & Xenos, 2011). In another study, 1244 L.D. Rosen et al. / Computers in Human Behavior 29 (2013) 1243–1254...
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...Schizoid personality disorder is the pervasive apathy toward social interaction and disinterest in social relationships (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)....
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...Social ties and building one’s relationship with others has been related to measures of well-being, self-esteem and life satisfaction (Bargh, McKenna, & Fitzsimons, 2002; Helliwell & Putnam, 2004; Subramanyam & Smahel, 2011)....
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...In 1995, Robert Kraut and his colleagues provided Internet access and a computer to 93 households who had no Internet experience and tracked their psychological health over several years in the HomeNet Project (Kraut et al., 2002)....
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