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Social connection and social networking: Daily conflict increases nightly Facebook use among avoidant participants

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This article explored whether attachment style predicted evening Facebook use and whether this effect was moderated by daily interpersonal conflict, finding that high anxiety participants reported spending significantly more time on Facebook at night, regardless of daily conflict.
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Using a daily diary methodology we explored whether attachment style predicted evening Facebook use and whether this effect was moderated by daily interpersonal conflict. High anxiety participants reported spending significantly more time on Facebook at night, regardless of daily conflict. Conversely, participants high in avoidance only reported increased time on Facebook on nights following days of more (vs. less) conflict. Daily conflict did not influence time spent in face-to-face interactions for avoidant participants. Interestingly, increased time on Facebook led to lower self-esteem next day , but increased time in face-to-face interactions led to higher self-esteem. Results suggest people high in avoidance use Facebook as an indirect way to seek connection following conflict, but, ironically, Facebook fails to fulfill avoidant’s belongingness needs.

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Addiction to Social Media and Attachment Styles: A Systematic Literature Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically reviewed the evidence concerning internet/social media addiction and attachment style and found a significant positive association between insecure attachment (anxious and avoidant) and a more intensive and dysfunctional use of the internet and social media.
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Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review

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Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem

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Partner self-esteem and interpersonal risk: Rejection from a low self-esteem partner constrains connection and increases depletion

TL;DR: The authors found that rejection from a low (vs. high) self-esteem partner influences the ability of participants to access connection-related thoughts following rejection from high (vs., low) selfesteem partner, despite evidence from both self-report and independent coding.
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