Time spent online: Latent profile analyses of emerging adults' social media use

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Highlights：

• Conducted latent profile analyses of emerging adults' social media use.

• Distinguished how much time youth spend on social media from how they use it.

• High frequency users tended to be women and to have more Facebook friends.

• Highly engaged users tended to be White and more highly educated.

摘要

•Conducted latent profile analyses of emerging adults' social media use.•Distinguished how much time youth spend on social media from how they use it.•High frequency users tended to be women and to have more Facebook friends.•Highly engaged users tended to be White and more highly educated.

论文关键词：Social media use,Engagement,Emerging adults,Latent profile analysis,Digital divide

论文评审过程：Received 28 December 2016, Revised 9 May 2017, Accepted 17 May 2017, Available online 18 May 2017, Version of Record 23 May 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.026