Text or Talk? Social Anxiety, Loneliness, and Divergent Preferences for Cell Phone Use

By Donna J. Reid, Fraser J. M. Reid. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2007

309 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Txt msg n school literacy: does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment? (2008, background): “Reid and Reid (2004, 2007) found that roughly half of the young people who used text messaging actually preferred texting their friends to talking to them, particularly the more anxious.”
I need my smartphone: A hierarchical model of personality and cell-phone addiction (2015, unknown): “A number of research studies have found that stress/anxiety are related to problematic cell phone use (Beranuy, Oberst, Carbonell, & Chamarro, 2009; Ha, Chin, Park, Ryu, & Yu, 2008; Jenaro, Flores, Gomez-Vela, Gonzalez-Gil, & Caballo, 2007; Psychiatric Dispatches, 2008; Reid & Reid, 2007).”
Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting wireless mobile device use on anxiety levels among low, moderate and high users (2014, background): “Lepp, Barkley, and Karpinski (2013) found through survey research that cell phone use was positively related to anxiety among college students, while Reid and Reid (2007) discovered that anxious participants preferred text messaging over other methods of communication, which mediated the effects of ”
Addictive Personality and Problematic Mobile Phone Use (2009, unknown): “While there is no investigation of the relationship between loneliness and problematic mobile phone use, Reid and Reid 35 revealed that lonely people preferred calls and rated text such as short message service (SMS, or text messaging) as a less intimate method of contact; on the other hand, anxious”
Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, background): “Furthermore, research suggests that preferences for text messaging mirror those for social interaction via the Internet in several aspects (Reid & Reid, 2007).”
Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand Twitter words (2016, background): “Reid and Reid (2007) ran an online communication experiment and found that for lonely participants, texting was in fact rated as less intimate, but participants who were anxious still rated text communication as more intimate.”
Texting while stressed: Implications for students’ burnout, sleep, and well-being. (2013, background): “Individuals with social anxiety prefer texting to calling (Reid & Reid, 2007) and are also more prone to using avoidant coping strategies (Olatunji, Moretz, & Zlomke, 2010), and the combination of these characteristics may place them at risk for overusing text messages and experiencing associated…”
The dark side of smartphone usage: Psychological traits, compulsive behavior and technostress (2014, background): “Because social anxiety is lower when interacting online than when interacting in real life, interacting online rather than face-to-face has proven to be a useful alternative, fulfilling the need to interact in a less direct way (Reid & Reid, 2007; Yen et al., 2012).”
Smartphone addiction and its relationship with social anxiety and loneliness (2016, background): “People with social anxiety may prefer texting, while people with feelings of loneliness prefer other activities with their smartphones rather than texting (Internet surfing, games, etc.), as was reported previously (Reid and Reid 2007; Takao, Takahashi, and Kitamura 2009).”