Internet Use, Social Skills, and Adjustment

By Elisabeth Engelberg, Lennart Sjöberg. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2004

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Internet Communication and Its Relation to Well-Being: Identifying Some Underlying Mechanisms (2007, background): “However, when measures of excessive or compulsive Internet use were investigated, studies consistently reported positive relations with depression ( Caplan, 2003 ; Engelberg, & Sjoberg, 2004 ; Young & Rogers, 1998 ).”
The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, background): “…use intensity (Amiel & Sargent, 2004; Back et al., 2010; Correa et al., 2010), as well as indirectly affecting Facebook use intensity through the mediating variable of interpersonal competence (Caplan, 2005; Engelberg & Sjoberg, 2004; Harman, Hansen, Cochran & Lindsey, 2005; Ledbetter, 2010).”
Psychological Well-Being and Internet Addiction among University Students. (2013, methodology): “SPSS 11.5 was used in the analysis of the study.”
Attachment style, social skills, and Facebook use amongst adults (2013, background): “…social skills because previous research shows relationships between social skills and attachment style (Deniz et al., 2005; Dereli & Karakus, 2011; DiTommaso et al., 2003) and between social skills and internet use (Caplan, 2005; Engelberg & Sjoberg, 2004; Harman, Hansen, Cochran, & Lindsey, 2005).”
Problematic internet and cell-phone use: Psychological, behavioral, and health correlates (2007, background): “One measure to assess problematic Internet use is the Internet Addiction Scale (IAS) (Engelberg and Sjoberg 2004).”
Excessive internet use: the role of personality, loneliness and social support networks in internet addiction (2007, background): “In contrast, Engelberg and Sjoberg (2004) found frequent use of the Internet to be associated with greater loneliness, poorer social adaptation and emotional skills.”
Problematic Internet and mobile phone use and clinical symptoms in college students: The role of emotional intelligence (2009, background): “Concerning the use of the Internet, there are still few studies that deal explicitly with Internet addiction and emotional intelligence (Engelberg & Sjöberg, 2004).”
Internet Addiction: Metasynthesis of 1996–2006 Quantitative Research (2009, neutral): “…on the associations among constructs, such as the relationship between Internet usage and interpersonal skills, personality, and intelligence; 36 between attention-deficit/hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms and Internet addiction; 37 and between Internet addiction and depression and suicidal…”
Who uses Facebook? An investigation into the relationship between the Big Five, shyness, narcissism, loneliness, and Facebook usage (2011, background): “…Web as a prominent form of mass media, the Internet has seemingly dominated this area of scientific enquiry (Amichai-Hamburger, Wainapel, & Fox, 2002; Amiel & Sargent, 2004; Birnie & Horvath, 2002; Engelberg & Sjöberg, 2004; Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000; Thayer & Ray, 2006; Tosun & Lajunen, 2010).”
The Relationship Between Online Game Addiction and Aggression, Self-Control and Narcissistic Personality Traits (2008, background): “Some previous studies have suggested that individual psychological characteristics (including personality traits) may predispose certain individuals to overuse the Internet, and past research has chiefly examined the effects of shyness, anxiety, loneliness, depression, and self-consciousness on the ”
The Relationship of Loneliness and Social Anxiety with Children's and Adolescents' Online Communication (2010, neutral): “56 The results of this study suggest that future research should compare the nature and quality of online versus ofﬂine social relationships as well as continue the investigation of loneliness and = or social anxiety with related underlying factors in the two domains.”
Internet Addiction and Its Relationship to Chronotype and Personality in a Turkish University Student Sample (2013, methodology): “Montag, Jurkiewic, and Reuter (2010) found no relationship between extraversion/ introversion and IA; also, Engelberg and Sjöberg (2004) and Rahmani and Lavasani (2011) found no significant relationship between BIG-5 factors of personality and IA.”
Factors Influencing Internet Addiction in a Sample of Freshmen University Students in China (2009, positive): “12,20 Our ﬁnding that freshmen college students coming from areas other than where the university is located are at high risk for Internet addiction may partly be explained by loneliness because of homesickness and unfamiliarity with the new environment.”
Money Attitudes and Emotional Intelligence (2006, methodology): “This finding is consistent with our previous research that a more accurate perception of emotion in others is closely related to empathy and that these two variables, in turn, are related to a high degree of life adjustment (Engelberg & Sjöberg, 2003a).”