The Relationship between Internet Activities and Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of College Freshmen

By Charlie V. Morgan, Shelia R. Cotten. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Physical Interpersonal Relationships and Social Anxiety among Online Game Players (2005, neutral): “13 However, others point out that Internet-based social relationships are virtual relationships, and therefore should only be viewed as satisfying a need for virtual interactions, not real-world social needs. individuals relationships.”
Internet Communication and Its Relation to Well-Being: Identifying Some Underlying Mechanisms (2007, background): “With some exceptions (LaRose et al., 2001; Morgan & Cotten, 2003; Weiser, 2001), most research has treated the relation between Internet use and well-being as a simple main effect.”
Negative Social Comparison on Facebook and Depressive Symptoms: Rumination as a Mechanism (2013, neutral): “…(Kraut et al., 1998; Selfhout, Branje, Delsing, ter Bogt, & Meeus, 2009; van den Eijnden, Meerkerk, Vermulst, Spijkerman, & Engels, 2008), whereas others demonstrated positive effects of Internet use (Bessière, Kiesler, Kraut, & Boneva, 2008; Morgan & Cotten, 2003; Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
Loneliness as the Cause and the Effect of Problematic Internet Use: The Relationship between Internet Use and Psychological Well-Being (2009, neutral): “4 On the other hand, research on excessive forms of Internet usage has shown that uncontrolled or compulsive Internet use has been known to have negative effects on psychological well-being, such as depression 5 and loneliness.”
Prevalence of perceived stress, symptoms of depression and sleep disturbances in relation to information and communication technology (ICT) use among young adults - an explorative prospective study (2007, background): “E-mailing was associated with developing symptoms of depression (for women) in our study, while some studies report the opposite (LaRose et al., 2001; Morgan & Cotten, 2003).”
Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “Kraut et al [28] found that frequent general Internet use did not increase depression over time, and, in a second study, communication activities on the Internet were shown to be associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms [29].”
Online and Offline Social Networks: Use of Social Networking Sites by Emerging Adults (2008, background): “Students appear to use technology to obtain social support (LaRose, Eastin, & Gregg, 2001), and greater use of online communication tools such as email and chat room/instant messaging is related to reduced depressive symptoms (Morgan & Cotten, 2003).”
The Digital Self: How Social Media Serves as a Setting that Shapes Youth’s Emotional Experiences (2015, background): “Morgan and Cotten (2003) reported that the impact of Internet use on depression differs depending on the activity that one engages in.”
Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being: Testing the Stimulation Versus the Displacement Hypothesis (2007, background): “…for example, that Internet use is positively related to time spent with existing friends (Kraut et al., 2002), to the closeness of existing friendships (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007), and to well-being (Kraut et al., 2002, study 1; Morgan & Cotten, 2003, for email and chat; Shaw & Gant, 2002).”
The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement (2012, background): “This is congruent with research on general uses of the Internet that shows that online activities are either as important or more important than time spent when predicting outcomes (Cotten, 2008; Ellison et al., 2011; Gordon et al., 2007; Junco, Heiberger et al., 2010; Morgan & Cotten, 2003).”