Self-Esteem Shapes the Impact of GPA and General Health on Facebook Addiction
This study investigates the mediation impact of grade point average GPA and general health positive on Facebook addiction via self-esteem SE under the provision of active daily use of Facebook. We reached 120 participants who are college students. Our ...
The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students
The use of social media has grown exponentially to the extent of engaging close to one third of the world's population as of January 2016. Actually, social media statistics have been reporting an average annual increase of 10% in total number of users. ...
Confronting Online Extremism
Who is likely to be a target of online hate and extremism? To answer this question, we use an online survey N = 963 of youth and young adults recruited from a demographically balanced sample of Americans. Adapting routine activity theory, we distinguish ...
Do Initial Respondents Differ From Callback Respondents? Lessons From a Mobile CATI Survey
Mobile phones are increasingly being used to conduct mobile computer-assisted telephone interview CATI surveys and some say it is just a question of time before they replace fixed phones. Although mobile phones allow their users to be called anywhere ...
Boosting Online Response Rates Among Nonresponders
- Jessica M. Rath,
- Valerie F. Williams,
- Andrea C. Villanti,
- Molly P. Green,
- Paul D. Mowery,
- Donna M. Vallone
Online data collection has become an extremely popular survey mode given its reduced cost, ease of administration, and timeliness. Although extensive research exists on the influence of e-mail invitation design characteristics to prompt survey ...
Migrant Sampling Using Facebook Advertisements
Sampling of migrants in cross-national survey research is challenging. Established techniques such as random-route sampling or random-digit-dialing are associated with high monetary costs, in particular when small migrant groups are targeted. The use of ...
Displaying Videos in Web Surveys
Videos are often used in web surveys to assess attitudes. While including videos may allow researchers to test immediate reactions, there may be issues associated with displaying videos that are overlooked. In this article, we examine the effects of ...
Experiencing Resilience via Video Games
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of games, where characters must overcome adversity, on player's perceptions of their psychological resilience. Located on the PlayStation blog blog.us.playstation.com, the online PlayStation ...
