Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kross, Ethan ^a   Verduyn, Philippe ^b   Demiralp, Emre ^a   Park, Jiyoung ^a   Lee, David Seungjae ^a   Lin, Natalie ^a   Shablack, Holly ^a   Jonides, John ^a   Ybarra, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCE SAMPLING; FACEBOOK; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONELINESS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING; TEXT MESSAGING; WELLBEING;

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881488287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069841     Document Type: Article

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