A study of young adults released yesterday concluded that the more people used Facebook, the worse they subsequently felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection,\u201d said University of Michigan social psychologist Ethan Kross, lead author of the study.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result \u2014 it undermines it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The researchers recruited 82 young adults who had smartphones and Facebook accounts and assessed their subjective well-being by texting them at random times five times a day for two weeks.<\/p>\n
The researchers said the study, published in the scientific journal PLOS, was believed to be the first measuring Facebook\u2019s impact on happiness and life satisfaction. \u201cThis is a result of critical importance because it goes to the very heart of the influence that social networks may have on people\u2019s lives,\u201d said University of Michigan cognitive neuroscientist John Jonides, another author of the paper. \b<\/p>\n
Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A study of young adults released yesterday concluded that the more people used Facebook, the worse they subsequently felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection,\u201d said University of Michigan social psychologist Ethan Kross, lead author of the study.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result \u2014 it undermines it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}