Annotated Bibliography: Adolescents and Social Media
Jeanine Hansell
Argosy University
Annotated Bibliography
Baek, Y.M., Bae, Y. & Jang, H.(2013). Social and parasocial relationships on social
network sites and their differential relationships with users’ psychological well-being.
CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 16(7), 512-518. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.
2012.0510 Describes types of Social Network Site (SNS) relationships, and investigates their relationships with social isolation, interpersonal trust, and SNS addiction. The researchers looked at the effect of SNS use on the subject’s psychological well. The method used in this quantitative study was a survey sampling …show more content…
Srivastava, A., & Tiwari, R. K. (2013). Role of social media on psychological well-being of
adolescents. Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, 4(4), 919-922. Retrieved from
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This quantitative study looked at how social media effects the psychological well-being of adolescents’ as well as the age group of those who use social media and their psychological well being. This is a reputable journal and is peer-reviewed. A survey was used in this study and they found that excessive use of social media presents with negative effects on one’s psychological well-being. This study appears to run closely with what this writer is looking into studying. It leads to a great starting point in the research process.
Yang, C., & Brown, B. B. (2013). Motives for using Facebook, patterns of Facebook activities,
and late adolescents' social adjustment to college. Journal of Youth and Adolescence,
42(3), 403-16.