Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.
Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.
J Affect Disord. 2013 Nov;151(2):525-530. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.06.038. Epub 2013 Jul 10.
Social networking sites like Facebook represent a potentially valuable means for individuals with low self-esteem or interpersonal difficulties to connect with others; however, recent research indicates that individuals who are most in need of social benefits from Facebook may be ineffective in their communication strategies, and thereby sabotage their potential to benefit interpersonally. The current study tested whether reassurance seeking via Facebook negatively influenced self-esteem, and whether this change in self-esteem mediated the relationship between Facebook reassurance seeking and greater thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness.
Participants completed measures online at two time-points approximately 24 days apart.
Results provided evidence that Facebook reassurance seeking predicted lower levels of self-esteem, which in turn predicted increased feelings that one does not belong and that one is a burden.
Key limitations to this study include our use of a predominantly young, female, Caucasian sample, a novel reassurance seeking measure, and only evaluating two time points.
These results suggest that Facebook usage has the potential for negative and far-reaching influences on one's interpersonal functioning.
像 Facebook 这样的社交网站代表了一种潜在的有价值的方式，可以让自尊心低或人际关系困难的人与他人建立联系；然而，最近的研究表明，最需要从 Facebook 中获得社交益处的人可能在沟通策略上效率低下，从而破坏了他们在人际关系中获益的潜力。本研究测试了通过 Facebook 寻求安慰是否会对自尊心产生负面影响，以及这种自尊心的变化是否会调节 Facebook 寻求安慰与更大的归属感受挫感和感知负担感之间的关系。
参与者在大约 24 天的两个时间点在线完成了测量。
结果提供了证据表明，Facebook 寻求安慰会预测自尊心降低，而自尊心降低又会预测归属感减弱和负担感增加。
本研究的主要局限性包括我们使用的主要是年轻、女性、白种人样本、新颖的安慰寻求测量方法，以及仅评估了两个时间点。
这些结果表明，Facebook 的使用有可能对一个人的人际交往功能产生负面和深远的影响。
