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Unraveling the influence of passive and active WeChat interactions on upward social comparison and negative psychological consequences among university students
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Structural equation modeling demonstrates that passive WeChat interaction is associated with a greater level of upward social comparison, which is in turn related positively to self-perceived depressive mood and fearing of missing out, which could be beneficial to understanding of the psychologically powerful nature of WeChat and how novel technology-medated communication use could actually impact university students’ mental health in contemporary digitally driven society.About:
This article is published in Telematics and Informatics.The article was published on 2021-03-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social comparison theory.read more
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Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”
TL;DR: In this paper, a preregistered study investigated a rival hypothesis, which states that the effects of browsing on well-being depend on person-specific susceptibilities to envy, inspiration, and enjoyment.
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How compulsive WeChat use and information overload affect social media fatigue and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic? A stressor-strain-outcome perspective
TL;DR: The research results demonstrate that perceived information overload through WeChat could significantly trigger social media fatigue among young people and could indirectly predict emotional stress and social anxiety through the mediation of socialMedia fatigue.
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Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of social networking sites on well-being depends on how they are used: using SNSs actively to interconnect users, or passively using them passively.
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Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that WeChat involvement positively predicts individuals’ network diversity and network size in their daily routine life and network diversity is also positively associated with degrees of online bridging capital, online bonding capital and satisfaction with life.
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Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of WeChat involvement on young people's network characteristics (network diversity and network size) and examined the influence of network characteristics on their online bridging capital, bonding capital and life satisfaction.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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The patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005-2008
David Cella,William T. Riley,Arthur A. Stone,Nan E. Rothrock,Bryce B. Reeve,Susan Yount,Dagmar Amtmann,Rita K. Bode,Daniel J. Buysse,Seung W. Choi,Karon F. Cook,Robert F. DeVellis,Darren A. DeWalt,James F. Fries,Richard Gershon,Elizabeth A. Hahn,Jin Shei Lai,Paul A. Pilkonis,Dennis A. Revicki,Matthias Rose,Kevin P. Weinfurt,Ron D. Hays +21 more
TL;DR: The first large-scale testing of PROMIS item banks and their short forms provide evidence that they are reliable and precise measures of generic symptoms and functional reports comparable to legacy instruments.
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Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out
TL;DR: The present research presents three studies conducted to advance an empirically based understanding of the fear of missing out phenomenon, the Fear of Missing Out scale (FoMOs), which is the first to operationalize the construct.
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Association between Social Media Use and Depression among U.S. Young Adults
Liu yi Lin,Jaime E. Sidani,Ariel Shensa,Ana Radovic,Elizabeth Miller,Jason B. Colditz,Beth L. Hoffman,Leila M. Giles,Brian A. Primack +8 more
TL;DR: Social media use is increasing among U.S. young adults, and its association with mental well‐being remains unclear, and this study assessed the association between SM use and depression in a nationally representative sample of young adults.
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Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence
Philippe Verduyn,David Lee,Jiyoung Park,Holly Shablack,Ariana Orvell,Joseph B. Bayer,Oscar Ybarra,John Jonides,Ethan Kross +8 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being, and this issue is examined using experimental and field methods.
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