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Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect
While positive emotions like happiness and life satisfaction have received great attention, how to eliminate negative affect is largely neglected. This study contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between Internet use and people’s negative affect. Unlike previous studies that co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10158-z |
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author | Zheng, Hongyun Ma, Wanglin Li, Junpeng Botero, Julio |
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description | While positive emotions like happiness and life satisfaction have received great attention, how to eliminate negative affect is largely neglected. This study contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between Internet use and people’s negative affect. Unlike previous studies that consider only one indicator, we capture negative affect from different dimensions by considering loneliness, sadness, and life hardship. We employ an endogenous ordered probit model to address the selection bias of Internet use and analyze the 20,107 individual-level samples sourced from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies survey. The results show that Internet use significantly reduces people’s loneliness, sadness, and life hardship. We also find that studying online and watching short videos would increase people’s loneliness feeling and shopping online deepens people’s life hardship. In contrast, using WeChat significantly reduces sadness and life hardship. Our findings confirm that guiding people to use the Internet appropriately is necessary to reduce negative affect and improve the quality of their life. |
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spelling | pubmed-99744002023-03-01 Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect Zheng, Hongyun Ma, Wanglin Li, Junpeng Botero, Julio Appl Res Qual Life Article While positive emotions like happiness and life satisfaction have received great attention, how to eliminate negative affect is largely neglected. This study contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between Internet use and people’s negative affect. Unlike previous studies that consider only one indicator, we capture negative affect from different dimensions by considering loneliness, sadness, and life hardship. We employ an endogenous ordered probit model to address the selection bias of Internet use and analyze the 20,107 individual-level samples sourced from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies survey. The results show that Internet use significantly reduces people’s loneliness, sadness, and life hardship. We also find that studying online and watching short videos would increase people’s loneliness feeling and shopping online deepens people’s life hardship. In contrast, using WeChat significantly reduces sadness and life hardship. Our findings confirm that guiding people to use the Internet appropriately is necessary to reduce negative affect and improve the quality of their life. Springer Netherlands 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9974400/ /pubmed/37359227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10158-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Zheng, Hongyun Ma, Wanglin Li, Junpeng Botero, Julio Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title | Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title_full | Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title_fullStr | Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title_short | Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect |
title_sort | relationship between internet use and negative affect |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10158-z |
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