Hooked on Facebook: The Role of Social Anxiety and Need for Social Assurance in Problematic Use of Facebook
Hooked on Facebook: The Role of Social Anxiety and Need for Social Assurance in Problematic Use of Facebook
Roselyn J. Lee-Won,Leo Herzog,Sung Gwan Park
2015 · DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2015.0002
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking · 168 Citations
TLDR
Results showed that both social anxiety and need for social assurance had a significant positive association with problematic use of Facebook, and demonstrated that need forsocial assurance served as a significant moderator of the relationship between social Anxiety and problematic Facebook use.