ArticleHeliyon2021
Loneliness and Facebook use: the role of social comparison and rumination.
Article in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Social Media Use Intensity and Social Media Use Problems in Relation to Interpersonal Adaptation During the Transition to College: An Intensive Longitudinal Study.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Identifying and comparing types of social comparisons on social networking sites among mothers with infants: Differences in maternal loneliness by types.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Social Media Use and Fear of Missing out: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Junior High Students from Western Mexico.Pediatric reports · 2024Article
- Mechanisms Linking Social Media Use and Sleep in Emerging Adults in the United States.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Examining the growth in willingness to pay for digital wellbeing services on social media: A comparative analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Problematic Use of Internet Associates with Poor Quality of Life via Psychological Distress in Invididuals with ADHD.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- The Effect of Social Support on the Mental Health Literacy of Parents Who Have Children with Special Needs: A Moderated Mediating Effect.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Does Problematic Use of Social Network Mediate the Association between Bullying Victimization and Loneliness among Lebanese Adolescents?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Negative psychological and physiological effects of social networking site use: The example of Facebook.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The double-edged sword effects of active social media use on loneliness: The roles of interpersonal satisfaction and fear of missing out.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Life Satisfaction and Instagram Addiction among University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Bidirectional Mediating Role of Loneliness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations Between Competitive Classroom Climate and Learning Motivation Among Chinese Adolescent Students: The Mediating Roles of Social Comparisons.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
- Living through the COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritius: mental well-being and dependence on Facebook.Discover psychology · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
There is conflicting evidence as to whether Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites, either promotes social connectedness or contributes to the rising prevalence of loneliness. This study aimed to understand the association between Facebook use and loneliness. Two hundred and fourteen active Facebook users (
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