Journal
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages 520-527Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.023
Keywords
Adolescerits; Bonding and bridging of social capital; Cross-sectional survey; Intensive Facebook use; Life satisfaction; Online sociability and young adults
Funding
- Academy of Finland, Mind the Gap project [1265528]
- Academy of Finland mobility grants [278832, 290822, 298098, 299265]
- Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES) - Beam Sustainable Education Design (SED) project [440176]
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [290822, 299265, 298098, 290822, 299265, 298098] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Prior extensive literature on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has linked their use with psychosocial wellbeing. Facebook use has also been associated with different attributes of psychosocial well-being. However, the extant literature is inconclusive regarding the nature of the relationship shared by the different attributes of psychosocial well-being and Intensity of Facebook Use (IFU). Furthermore, the prior literature has also revealed inconsistent findings concerning this relationship. To address this gap, this study investigated the significant role of different attributes of psychosocial well-being associated with Facebook use, namely civic-political participation, satisfaction of life, bridging and bonding of social capital, and online sociability on IFU. A total of four cross-sectional surveys were undertaken with adolescent and young-adult Facebook users from India over a period of one year. The results suggest that online sociability was the strongest, and life satisfaction was a non-significant predictor of IFU of both adolescents and young adults across all four studies. The bonding and bridging of social capital was a significant predictor of the IFU of high social economic condition (SES) adolescents, unlike young adults. Furthermore, bridging was, but bonding of social capital was not, a significant predictor of the IFU of low SES adolescents. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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