EFFECTS OF INTERNET USE AND SOCIAL RESOURCES ON CHANGES IN DEPRESSION

Autor:	Robert E. Kraut, Bonka Boneva, Katherine Bessière, Sara Kiesler
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Longitudinal study Extraversion and introversion Internet use Social resource business.industry Communication Sample (statistics) Library and Information Sciences Social support The Internet Psychology business Social psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Information, Communication & Society. 11:47-70
ISSN:	1468-4462 1369-118X
DOI:	10.1080/13691180701858851
Popis:	We examine how people's different uses of the Internet predict their later scores on a standard measure of depression, and how their existing social resources moderate these effects. In a longitudinal US survey conducted in 2001 and 2002, almost all respondents reported using the Internet for information, and entertainment and escape; these uses of the Internet had no impact on changes in respondents' level of depression. Almost all respondents also used the Internet for communicating with friends and family, and they showed lower depression scores six months later. Only about 20 percent of this sample reported using the Internet to meet new people and talk in online groups. Doing so changed their depression scores depending on their initial levels of social support. Those having high or medium levels of social support showed higher depression scores; those with low levels of social support did not experience these increases in depression. Our results suggest that individual differences in social resource...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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