The Effects of Instant Messaging on the Quality of Adolescents’ Existing Friendships: A Longitudinal Study

By Patti M. Valkenburg, Jochen Peter. 2009

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Online communication among adolescents: an integrated model of its attraction, opportunities, and risks. (2011, background): “Although several studies that are based on longitudinal designs have already emerged recently [2,42,74], there is a vital need for experimental research as well.”
Media Effects: Theory and Research. (2016, methodology): “This enhanced online self-disclosure, in turn, Media Effects 27 stimulated the quality of their friendships, albeit only when adolescents used social media to communicate primarily with their existing friends and not when they used it primarily to chat with strangers (Valkenburg & Peter 2009, 2011).”
Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “The authors explained this effect by showing that online communications tend to be more self-disclosing (the Internet-enhanced self-disclosure hypothesis; Valkenburg & Peter, 2009a, 2009b).”
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).”
The effect of social network sites on adolescents' social and academic development: Current theories and controversies (2011, background): “Valkenburg and Peter (2009a) observe two changes in Internet behavior that help explain recent, positive results of SNS.”
“Media Time = Family Time” (2014, unknown): “…can strengthen other relationships during adolescence, such as friendships or romantic partners (Blair & Fletcher, 2010; Blais, Craig, Pepler, & Connolly, 2008; Coyne, Stockdale, Busby, Iverson, & Grant, 2011; Punamäki, Wallenius, Hölttö, Nygård, & Rimpelä, 2009; Valkenburg & Peter, 2009, 2011).”
Using Social Media for Social Comparison and Feedback-Seeking: Gender and Popularity Moderate Associations with Depressive Symptoms (2015, unknown): “Other studies have indicated the opposite: that frequent technology use may be associated with positive adjustment, including increases in self-disclosure and friendship quality (Valkenburg and Peter 2009).”
Psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming (2011, methodology): “As a result, the bootstrap method generally produces more accurate results than parametric tests if the assumption of normal distribution is violated (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009).”
The Digital Self: How Social Media Serves as a Setting that Shapes Youth’s Emotional Experiences (2015, background): “These authors found support for their claim in a longitudinal study which demonstrated that instant messaging increases friendship quality for adolescents due to intimate online self-disclosure (Valkenburg and Peter 2009b).”
Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World? (2018, background): “More frequent social Internet use is associated with higher quality face-to-face relationships (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009).”
The Role of Social Networking Sites in Early Adolescents’ Social Lives (2016, background): “A second explanation concerns online self-disclosure (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009a).”
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns (2020, unknown): “This enhanced sharing of positive and negative emotions may bring more connected-ness among both passive private and active private users (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009), which may, in turn, enhance adolescents’ well-being (Verduyn et al., 2017).”
Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (2013, background): “For example, adolescents’ use of social media can enhance their intimate self-disclosure to friends (mediating media effect), which in turn influences their perceived quality of these friendships (second-order media effect; Valkenburg & Peter, 2009).”