Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being: Testing the Stimulation Versus the Displacement Hypothesis

By Patti M. Valkenburg, Jochen Peter. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World? (2018, background): “They also feel more in control of their online interactions and feel that they have a broader range of topics that they can discuss online than offline (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007b).”
Exploring the Relationships Between Different Types of Facebook Use, Perceived Online Social Support, and Adolescents’ Depressed Mood (2016, background): “More specifically, the stimulation hypothesis argues that online communication enhances well-being through its positive effect on time spent with existing friends and the quality of these relationships (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007, 2009).”
How Social Are Social Media? A Review of Online Social Behaviour and Connectedness (2017, background): “This idea, known as the displacement hypothesis (Ahn & Shin, 2013), argues that time spent socialising on the internet detracts from beneficial offline social encounters and has deleterious effects on psychological wellbeing (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents (2009, background): “There is also evidence that online self-disclosure is related to friendship formation (McKenna & Bargh, 2000) and to the quality of existing friendships (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007a).”
Internet Addiction and its Psychosocial Risks (Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Loneliness) among Iranian Adolescents and Young Adults: A Structural Equation Model in a Cross-Sectional Study (2016, background): “This is because adolescents spend a lot of time on the Internet to establish and maintain social interactions with other people (Valkenburg and Peter 2007).”
Online Communication and Adolescent Social Ties: Who benefits more from Internet use? (2009, background): “Furthermore, Valkenburg and Peter (2005, 2007) found that Internet use, particularly online communication enhances the quality of friendships directly and indirectly through increased time with friends.”
The Relationship Between Facebook and the Well-Being of Undergraduate College Students (2011, positive): “These results support the stimulation hypothesis, based on which the Internet enhances social interactions and thus contributes positively to well-being.(10) More recently, there has been an increasing interest in studying the use and effects of Facebook.”
The Digital Self: How Social Media Serves as a Setting that Shapes Youth’s Emotional Experiences (2015, background): “Valkenburg and Peter (2007c) reported that preadolescents and adolescents interact online mainly to remain connected with their existing friends (88”
The Wired Generation: Academic and Social Outcomes of Electronic Media Use Among University Students (2011, neutral): “Recent studies have also included SNSs and text messaging.(31) Other forms of electronic media may also influence student social life.”
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns (2020, neutral): “In contrast, passive private use may enhance well-being, because it entails communication among intimate others, such as close friends or family members (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007; van Driel et al., 2019).”
The role of color-blind racial attitudes in reactions to racial discrimination on social network sites. (2010, background): “…the creation of social networking sites, the locations for the development of relationships on campus, especially peer-to-peer, have expanded from physical spaces to the online world as increasing numbers of users flock to these sites (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “Bargh (2002) rightfully stressed the need to study the mechanisms between being on the Internet and possible outcomes (see also Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, background): “In general, researchers have examined various effects of personality traits on consumer behaviors for different forms of CMC technology (e.g., Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Joinson, 2003; Kraut et al., 1998, 2002; Walther, 1996; Valkenburg, Schouten, & Peter, 2005; Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
The social side of gaming: How playing online computer games creates online and offline social support (2012, background): “A number of studies investigating the accumulation of online social capital via social network sites (Vergeer & Pelzer, 2009), instant messaging (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007), or e-mail communication (Miyata & Kobayashi, 2008) have revealed that online social capital in fact is related to offline…”