Disclosures about important life events on Facebook: Relationships with stress and quality of life

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  • Jennifer L. Bevan
  • Ruth Gomez
  • Lisa Sparks
چکیده

The current study examined the relationship between general perceived levels of stress, quality of life, social networking usage, and disclosing important life events on Facebook in order to better understand the complex relationship between online disclosure and individual well-being. An online survey was completed by adult Facebook users aged 18–70. Results indicate that the more time spent on and the more social network memberships, the higher stress and lower quality of life; Facebook-specific usage was unrelated to either well-being variable. Together, these findings suggest that the current increase in social media variety and usage may be detrimental to user well-being. Users who shared important, bad health news on Facebook had higher stress and lower quality of life than those who did not, with no significant differences for sharing good health news. The more that users did not share important news on Facebook for self-protection and friend unresponsiveness reasons, the greater their stress. The self-protection reason was also negatively related to quality of life. These inconsistent findings can likely be partially explained by the nature of the information that is shared. These findings are discussed in light of disclosure and relationship patterns on social networks. 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computers in Human Behavior

دوره 39  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014