Reexamining the relationship between social media and happiness: The effects of various social media platforms on reconceptualized happiness
Reexamining the relationship between social media and happiness: The effects of various social media platforms on reconceptualized happiness
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DOI：
10.1016/j.tele.2018.04.011
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
8.5
通讯作者：
Chae, Jiyoung
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作者：
Chae, Jiyoung
目前的研究通过扩大社交媒体的范围和重新思考幸福的概念来重新审视社交媒体使用与幸福之间的关系。具体来说，这项研究包括Facebook以外的平台，并测试了每个平台的差异效应。因为幸福并不完全是相对的，所以有人假设社会比较只会影响相对幸福，而相对幸福只是整体幸福的一部分。韩国女性的两波纵向调查显示，使用博客，Instagram，LinkedIn是积极的社会比较波1（W1），而Twitter是负相关的。LinkedIn的使用与社会比较关系最密切。反过来，W1的社会比较对W2的相对幸福感（“我比我的朋友更幸福”）有负面预测，但对W2的整体幸福感没有预测。社交媒体可能会让我们相信，通过社会比较，其他人的生活更好。然而，这种比较只影响整体幸福感或生活满意度的一部分。没有社会比较，社交媒体有可能让我们更快乐。
The current study reexamined the relationship between social media use and happiness by broadening the scope of social media and rethinking the conceptualization of happiness. Specifically, this study included platforms other than Facebook and tested differential effects of each platform. Because happiness is not entirely relative, it was hypothesized that social comparison would influence only relative happiness, which is only one part of overall happiness. A two-wave longitudinal survey among Korean females revealed that the use of blogs, Instagram, and LinkedIn is positively associated with social comparison at Wave 1 (W1), whereas Twitter is negatively associated. LinkedIn use was most strongly associated with social comparison. In turn, social comparison at W1 negatively predicted relative happiness at W2 ("I am happier than my friends") but did not predict overall happiness at W2. Social media may lead us to believe that other people's lives are better through social comparison. However, such comparison influences only part of overall happiness or life satisfaction. Without social comparison, social media have the potential to make us happier.