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Facebook Depression or Facebook Contentment: The Relation Between Facebook Use and Well-Being

Facebook Depression or Facebook Contentment: The Relation Between Facebook Use and Well-Being

Jessica J. Joseph, Malinda Desjarlais, Lucijana Herceg
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522540472|ISBN10: 1522540474|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522588405|EISBN13: 9781522540489
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4047-2.ch007
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Joseph, Jessica J., et al. "Facebook Depression or Facebook Contentment: The Relation Between Facebook Use and Well-Being." Intimacy and Developing Personal Relationships in the Virtual World, edited by Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 104-125. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4047-2.ch007

APA

Joseph, J. J., Desjarlais, M., & Herceg, L. (2019). Facebook Depression or Facebook Contentment: The Relation Between Facebook Use and Well-Being. In R. Gopalan (Ed.), Intimacy and Developing Personal Relationships in the Virtual World (pp. 104-125). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4047-2.ch007

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Joseph, Jessica J., Malinda Desjarlais, and Lucijana Herceg. "Facebook Depression or Facebook Contentment: The Relation Between Facebook Use and Well-Being." In Intimacy and Developing Personal Relationships in the Virtual World, edited by Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan, 104-125. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4047-2.ch007

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Abstract

Within the literature, Facebook has received much attention in order to understand the potential positive and negative effects associated with using the social networking site. The current chapter provides a discussion of the empirical support for the differential outcomes associated with actively posting and chatting on Facebook vs. passively browsing Facebook, as well as the underlying mechanisms for the effects. Specifically, the current chapter will discuss two perspectives related to the differential effects of active and passive Facebook use: Facebook contentment (a wellbeing enhancing effect) and Facebook depression (a wellbeing diminishing effect). The authors also discuss the extension of the results to other social media platforms and provide suggestions for future research.

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