Technology addiction’s contribution to mental wellbeing: The positive effect of online social capital

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Highlights：

• Online social capital partially mediates negative technology addiction effects.

• Self-concealment predicted technology addiction and negatively predicted wellbeing.

• Technology addition positively predicted online social capital.

• Online social capital positively predicted wellbeing.

• Developing bridging social capital partially mediates negative effects.

摘要

•Online social capital partially mediates negative technology addiction effects.•Self-concealment predicted technology addiction and negatively predicted wellbeing.•Technology addition positively predicted online social capital.•Online social capital positively predicted wellbeing.•Developing bridging social capital partially mediates negative effects.

论文关键词：Technology addiction,Wellbeing,Online social capital,Self-concealment

论文评审过程：Available online 16 August 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.014