“Snapchat Elicits More Jealousy than Facebook: A Comparison of Snapchat and Facebook Use”
Preliminary Analysis
This article was published in the journal, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a “peer-reviewed journal for understanding the social and psychological impact of today’s social networking practices,” (Wiederhold). The article was published online in 2015.
The article has three authors: Sonja Utz, PhD, Nicole Muscanell, PhD, and Cameran Khalid. Utz and Muscanell are professors at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tübingen, Germany in focus with ERC/Social Media. Utz is also a respective full professor for Communication by Social Media at University of Tübingen. Muscanell currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Penn State University. Dr. Khalid is affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Glasgow University in the United Kingdom. All the authors have a focus in Psychology in relation to the use of social media.
The article examines the relationship and comparison between the use of Snapchat and Facebook, two popular apps used primarily by millennials, in regards to the factor of jealousy. The article’s study describes the use of both …show more content…
Users were primarily recruited through the use of social media to ensure they fit the description of an application user; an individual who regularly uses the apps through its primary features and channels of communication. Users were primarily recruited through the Snapchat network of one of the authors and also via active social hashtags (#) used on Facebook and Twitter and it resulted in a small sample size of “77 participants (18 male; Mage = 22 years, SD = 4.21 years; 31 from Scotland, 24 from England, three outside Europe, the remainder from other European countries) Two male and two female participants were homosexual, and one female participant was bisexual,” (p.
Preliminary Analysis
This article was published in the journal, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a “peer-reviewed journal for understanding the social and psychological impact of today’s social networking practices,” (Wiederhold). The article was published online in 2015.
The article has three authors: Sonja Utz, PhD, Nicole Muscanell, PhD, and Cameran Khalid. Utz and Muscanell are professors at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tübingen, Germany in focus with ERC/Social Media. Utz is also a respective full professor for Communication by Social Media at University of Tübingen. Muscanell currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Penn State University. Dr. Khalid is affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Glasgow University in the United Kingdom. All the authors have a focus in Psychology in relation to the use of social media.
The article examines the relationship and comparison between the use of Snapchat and Facebook, two popular apps used primarily by millennials, in regards to the factor of jealousy. The article’s study describes the use of both …show more content…
Users were primarily recruited through the use of social media to ensure they fit the description of an application user; an individual who regularly uses the apps through its primary features and channels of communication. Users were primarily recruited through the Snapchat network of one of the authors and also via active social hashtags (#) used on Facebook and Twitter and it resulted in a small sample size of “77 participants (18 male; Mage = 22 years, SD = 4.21 years; 31 from Scotland, 24 from England, three outside Europe, the remainder from other European countries) Two male and two female participants were homosexual, and one female participant was bisexual,” (p.