APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Relationship between Social Networking Sites and Anxiety

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Technology and the Human Experience: Shaping Thoughts, Feelings, Development, and Interactions

  • Natasha Basu
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • George Nitzburg
    Teachers College, Columbia University

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between anxiety and amount of time spent on Social Networking Sites in adults. Through hierarchical linear regression, it was determined greater scores on State Anxiety (B=0.006; p=0.002<0.05) and Trait Anxiety (B=0.006, p=0.05<0.05;) was associated with spending more time on SNS per week.

Anxiety

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