Is Facebook affecting your mood?: a study of personality and depression among college students

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Date
2013
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University of Alabama Libraries
Abstract

This study examined whether the use of the social networking site, Facebook, is related to depressive moods among college students. The study used social comparison and SPAARS (Schematic, Propositional, Association, Analogical and Representation System) approach explaining the psychological processes that cause people to feel depressed. It aims to investigate the association between Facebook usage and depressive emotion due to different level of self-satisfaction and personalities among college students. A total of 213 college students completed an online questionnaire that assessed participants' levels of satisfaction, depressive emotions after Facebook use and their personality traits. Within the limitations of the study, results indicate that there is a moderate negative correlation between college students' levels of satisfaction and depressive emotions after Facebook use. For personality traits, neuroticism has a moderate and positive correlation with depressive emotion; conscientiousness and depressive emotions have moderate negative correlation and a weak negative correlation is found between extroversion, agreeableness, openness to new experiences and depressive emotion.

Description
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Keywords
Communication
Citation