Engagement and well-being on social network sites

Najmul Islam; Sameer Patil

doi:10.1145/2675133.2675299

Engagement and well-being on social network sites

Najmul Islam, Sameer Patil

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Prior research has reported contradictory findings on the relationship between the use of Social Network Sites (SNS) and psychological well-being. We addressed this shortcoming by incorporating a finer measure of SNS user engagement and hypothesizing a U-shaped rather than purely linear relationship between the two. We tested our hypotheses via a Web based questionnaire administered to 289 Facebook users. Ordinary least squares approach confirmed the hypothesized Ushaped relationship. Our results further show that User Engagement, and in turn well-being, is associated with the number of SNS friends. These findings indicate that well-being derived from SNS usage could be optimized by avoiding underuse as well as overuse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	ACM
Pages	375-382
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675299
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2015
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 14 Mar 2015 → 18 Mar 2015 Conference number: 18

Conference

Conference	ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Abbreviated title	CSCW
Country	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	14/03/2015 → 18/03/2015

Keywords

Content production
Facebook
Facebook vitality
SNS
Social Network Sites
User engagement
Well-being.

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10.1145/2675133.2675299

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Islam, N & Patil, S 2015, Engagement and well-being on social network sites. in CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM, pp. 375-382, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing , Vancouver, Canada, 14/03/2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675299

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