Impact of Social Networking on Social Psychology

IMPACT OF SOCIAL
NETWROKING ON
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Association of Facebook with happiness and
loneliness
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Contents
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................. 2
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 3
HYPOTHESIS.......................................................................................................... 4
METHODS.............................................................................................................. 4
PARTICIPANTS..................................................................................................... 4
PROCEDURE........................................................................................................ 4
MEASURES.......................................................................................................... 4
RESULTS................................................................................................................ 5
DISCUSSION........................................................................................................... 7
REFERENCES.......................................................................................................... 9

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ABSTRACT
Various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in past few years
have rapidly became popular among all the generations and especially among teenagers.
These social networking sites provide platform for the individuals to connect with people
globally, express their thoughts and feelings through comments, messages and variety of
other ways. The present study aims at analysing the association between the two variables
happiness and loneliness that affects the psychological and social well-being most and use of
Facebook. Using quantitative survey methodology it is observed that happiness is less
positively associated with Facebook use than loneliness.

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INTRODUCTION
Among all other networking sites Facebook has influenced the social lives and interaction
pattern of the peoples more therefore the social consequences of people using Facebook also
directly influence their social well-being (Kosinski, Matz, Gosling, Popov & Stillwell, 2015).
Maintaining a positive well being is important for proper psychological functioning.
However, well being is a complex term as it consists of different components that are
interrelated. The two most important components that have greater influence upon the overall
well-being of any individual are happiness (associated with pleasant affects) and loneliness
(associated with unpleasant affects). Several researches have shown previously the
association between use of Facebook and happiness (Arampatzi, Burger, & Novik, 2018) with
some of the results indicating that sometime use of Facebook might also negatively impact
the happiness. Similarly the association between loneliness, depression and Facebook has
also been explored to some extent. Though both the variables that is happiness and loneliness
overlaps with each other to some extent but it is important to measure them independently
(Pittman, 2018).
Exploring both the positive and negative aspects of well-being among the users of Facebook
potentially can be beneficial in understanding the overall well-being of an individual. The
positive outcome can be considered as the improved communication skills, increased social
support, increased self-esteem and mental health well-being. On the other hand the negative
outcomes include less communication in the real world, a constant pressure of uploading
good pictures to get constant complements and the pressure of maintaining a desired persona
(Phu & Gow, 2019).