With the rise of online social networking, social relationships are increasingly developed
and maintained in a digital domain. Drawing conclusions about the impact of the digital …

Investigators have long recognized that adolescents' peer experiences provide a crucial
context for the acquisition of developmental competencies, as well as potential risks for a …

Males have been proposed to be more vulnerable to internet addiction (IA) than females.
However, males and females may differ with respect to specific patterns and types of internet …

Social media have become increasingly integrated into the daily lives of adolescents. There
are concerns about the potential detrimental effects of adolescents' social media use (SMU) …

In nationally representative samples of US adolescents (age: 13–18) and entering college
students, 1976–2017 (N= 8.2 million), iGen adolescents in the 2010s (vs. previous …

The puzzle of whether digital media are improving or harming psychological well-being has
been plaguing researchers and the public for decades. Derived from media richness theory …

Theoretical and empirical work on digital media use and social connectedness has often
considered face-to-face communication to be an available option. But how do various digital …

Depression is associated with social risk factors, social impairments and poor social
functioning. This paper gives an overview of these social aspects using the NIMH Research …

Partner phubbing (Pphubbing) can be best understood as the extent to which an individual
uses or is distracted by his/her cell phone while in the company of his/her relationship …

Aims To investigate the online activities, prevalence of Internet Addiction in relation to
demographic characteristics and risk factors related to family and school among …