Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults (Extract 2)

Participants

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Eighty-two people (Mage=19.52, SDage=2.17; 53 females; 60.5% European American, 28.4% Asian, 6.2% African American, and 4.9% other) were recruited for a study on Facebook through flyers posted around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Participants needed a Facebook account and a touch-screen smartphone to qualify for the study. They received $20 and were entered into a raffle to receive an iPad2 for participating.

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Citation

Kross E, Verduyn P, Demiralp E, Park J, Lee DS, et al., (2013), Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults., PLoS ONE 8(8): e69841., doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069841 (link). Adapted and reproduced here under a CC BY 3.0 license.