Frazzled by Facebook? An Exploratory Study of Gender Differences in Social Network Communication among Undergraduate Men and Women

By S. Thompson, Eric Lougheed. 2012

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Pinterest or Thinterest?: Social Comparison and Body Image on Social Media (2016, background): “Survey data have also shown that women who report using Facebook more than men are also more likely to report feeling stressed from using Facebook than men (Thompson & Lougheed, 2012).”
The Digital Self: How Social Media Serves as a Setting that Shapes Youth’s Emotional Experiences (2015, background): “Others have estimated that the average amount of time adolescents spend online is 2 h per day (Tiggemann and Slater 2013), which is the same as college-aged youth (Thompson and Lougheed 2012).”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part I: A Review of Empirical Support (2016, background): “Furthermore, in a sample of US undergraduate Facebook users, almost 10 % of the female participants agreed that pictures other people posted on Facebook ‘‘gave them a negative self body image,’’ thus implicitly referring to decreases in body satisfaction resulting from social comparison (Thompson an”
Cyberbullying among University Students: Gendered Experiences, Impacts, and Perspectives (2014, background): “In assessing its applicability to adults, we should consider that women generally have higher scores onmeasures of empathy [37] and greater ability with nonverbal skills, for example, identifying emotions and noticing paralinguistic cues such as changes in voice intonation and facial differences [3,”