Correlates of Facebook usage patterns: The relationship between passive Facebook use, social anxiety symptoms, and brooding

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Highlights：

• Greater social anxiety symptoms were associated with more time spent on Facebook.

• Greater social anxiety symptoms were associated with passively using Facebook.

• Brooding mediated the association between passive Facebook use and social anxiety.

• Results have implications for the cognitive–behavioral model of social anxiety.

摘要

•Greater social anxiety symptoms were associated with more time spent on Facebook.•Greater social anxiety symptoms were associated with passively using Facebook.•Brooding mediated the association between passive Facebook use and social anxiety.•Results have implications for the cognitive–behavioral model of social anxiety.

论文关键词：Social anxiety,Social networking,Facebook use,Rumination,Brooding

论文评审过程：Available online 3 March 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.003