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The connection and background mechanisms of social fears and problematic social networking site use: A structural equation modeling analysis

Previous research warned that internet and social media use could have a negative effect on the social lives of excessive users. Based on the social compensation hypothesis, however, factors related to social fears could lead to problematic social networking site (SNS) use because individuals try to...

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Autores principales: Zsido, Andras N., Arato, Nikolett, Lang, Andras, Labadi, Beatrix, Stecina, Diana, Bandi, Szabolcs A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32736268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113323
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author Zsido, Andras N.
Arato, Nikolett
Lang, Andras
Labadi, Beatrix
Stecina, Diana
Bandi, Szabolcs A.
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description Previous research warned that internet and social media use could have a negative effect on the social lives of excessive users. Based on the social compensation hypothesis, however, factors related to social fears could lead to problematic social networking site (SNS) use because individuals try to compensate for their offline popularity. It was shown that individuals with higher levels of social fears tend to prefer computer-mediated (CMC) instead of face to face (FTF) communication. Here, we aimed to create a model that shows the direct and indirect effects of social anxiety and self-esteem on problematic SNS use. A total of 215 participants filled out our survey including measures of social anxiety, self-esteem, fear of negative evaluation, social media and Internet addiction. Using structural equation modeling we tested the indirect and direct effects between the variables. Our results indicated that social anxiety and lower self-esteem could lead to favoring CMC over FTF communication, which may result in problematic internet (PIU) and SNS use as a compensatory behavior to cope with fear of negative evaluation. The indirect pathways might highlight relevant differences behind the motivation of PIU – anonymity – and problematic SNS use – control. Theoretical as well as practical implications are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-73802142020-07-24 The connection and background mechanisms of social fears and problematic social networking site use: A structural equation modeling analysis Zsido, Andras N. Arato, Nikolett Lang, Andras Labadi, Beatrix Stecina, Diana Bandi, Szabolcs A. Psychiatry Res Article Previous research warned that internet and social media use could have a negative effect on the social lives of excessive users. Based on the social compensation hypothesis, however, factors related to social fears could lead to problematic social networking site (SNS) use because individuals try to compensate for their offline popularity. It was shown that individuals with higher levels of social fears tend to prefer computer-mediated (CMC) instead of face to face (FTF) communication. Here, we aimed to create a model that shows the direct and indirect effects of social anxiety and self-esteem on problematic SNS use. A total of 215 participants filled out our survey including measures of social anxiety, self-esteem, fear of negative evaluation, social media and Internet addiction. Using structural equation modeling we tested the indirect and direct effects between the variables. Our results indicated that social anxiety and lower self-esteem could lead to favoring CMC over FTF communication, which may result in problematic internet (PIU) and SNS use as a compensatory behavior to cope with fear of negative evaluation. The indirect pathways might highlight relevant differences behind the motivation of PIU – anonymity – and problematic SNS use – control. Theoretical as well as practical implications are discussed. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-10 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7380214/ /pubmed/32736268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113323 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32736268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113323
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