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Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being
Generally, deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) children have fewer friends than hearing peers and their friendships are of a lower quality. The research hypothesis was that using the computer to communicate with new online friends through social network sites or playing games with offline friends is ass...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24520373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088351 |
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author | Blom, Helen Marschark, Marc Vervloed, Mathijs P. J. Knoors, Harry |
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description | Generally, deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) children have fewer friends than hearing peers and their friendships are of a lower quality. The research hypothesis was that using the computer to communicate with new online friends through social network sites or playing games with offline friends is associated with D/HH friendship qualities, because it removes certain communication barriers D/HH face in offline communication settings. With online questionnaires the relation between computer use and online, mixed (offline friend who you also speak in online settings), and offline friendship quality of D/HH and hearing students (18–25 years) was compared in both the Netherlands (n = 100) and the United States (n = 122). In addition, the study examined whether the different friendship qualities were related to the participants' well-being. Results showed that, in general, D/HH students' friendship qualities and levels of well-being were similar to their hearing peers. The quality of the mixed friendships was positively related to well-being. Furthermore, the frequency of pc use with both online and offline friends was positively related to friendships qualities in both hearing and D/HH students. A combination of the online and offline friendship seems to be the most important friendship type for both hearing and D/HH students and it is worthwhile to encourage this friendship type. |
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spelling | pubmed-39197582014-02-11 Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being Blom, Helen Marschark, Marc Vervloed, Mathijs P. J. Knoors, Harry PLoS One Research Article Generally, deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) children have fewer friends than hearing peers and their friendships are of a lower quality. The research hypothesis was that using the computer to communicate with new online friends through social network sites or playing games with offline friends is associated with D/HH friendship qualities, because it removes certain communication barriers D/HH face in offline communication settings. With online questionnaires the relation between computer use and online, mixed (offline friend who you also speak in online settings), and offline friendship quality of D/HH and hearing students (18–25 years) was compared in both the Netherlands (n = 100) and the United States (n = 122). In addition, the study examined whether the different friendship qualities were related to the participants' well-being. Results showed that, in general, D/HH students' friendship qualities and levels of well-being were similar to their hearing peers. The quality of the mixed friendships was positively related to well-being. Furthermore, the frequency of pc use with both online and offline friends was positively related to friendships qualities in both hearing and D/HH students. A combination of the online and offline friendship seems to be the most important friendship type for both hearing and D/HH students and it is worthwhile to encourage this friendship type. Public Library of Science 2014-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3919758/ /pubmed/24520373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088351 Text en © 2014 Blom et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Blom, Helen Marschark, Marc Vervloed, Mathijs P. J. Knoors, Harry Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title | Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title_full | Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title_fullStr | Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title_full_unstemmed | Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title_short | Finding Friends Online: Online Activities by Deaf Students and Their Well-Being |
title_sort | finding friends online: online activities by deaf students and their well-being |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24520373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088351 |
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