Social network sites, marriage well-being and divorce: Survey and state-level evidence from the United States

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-101

  Valenzuela, Sebastián ^a   Halpern, Daniel ^a   Katz, James E ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Facebook; Marriage well being; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

DIVORCE; FACEBOOK; FIXED EFFECTS; MARRIAGE WELL-BEING; PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; TIME-INVARIANT FACTORS; SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE; WELL BEING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84898661774     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.034     Document Type: Article

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