Facebook: Social uses and anxiety

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Highlights：

• Anxiety on Facebook is positively correlated with social anxiety.

• Social Facebook use is not correlated with social anxiety.

• Social Facebook use predicts social anxiety after accounting for anxiety on Facebook.

• Social anxiety and anxiety on Facebook interact to predict social Facebook use.

• These results fit a nuanced reading of the social compensation hypothesis.

摘要

•Anxiety on Facebook is positively correlated with social anxiety.•Social Facebook use is not correlated with social anxiety.•Social Facebook use predicts social anxiety after accounting for anxiety on Facebook.•Social anxiety and anxiety on Facebook interact to predict social Facebook use.•These results fit a nuanced reading of the social compensation hypothesis.

论文关键词：Social anxiety,Social Facebook use,Anxiety on Facebook,Social compensation hypothesis

论文评审过程：Available online 20 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.020