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JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 403-416Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9836-x
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College; Facebook; Internet; Loneliness; Motives; Peers; Social adjustment
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Previous studies have confirmed that Facebook, the leading social networking site among young people, facilitates social connections among college students, but the specific activities and motives that foster social adjustment remain unclear. This study examined associations between patterns of Facebook activity, motives for using Facebook, and late adolescents' social adjustment to the college environment. Anonymous self-report survey data from 193 mostly European American students (M age = 20.32; 54 % female) attending a major Midwestern university indicated that motives and activity patterns were associated directly with social adjustment, but the association between one activity, status updating, and social adjustment also was moderated by the motive of relationship maintenance. Findings provide a more comprehensive portrait of how Facebook use may foster or inhibit social adjustment in college.
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