The effects of personality traits, self-esteem, loneliness, and narcissism on Facebook use among university students

By Jason L. Skues, Benedict Williams, Lisa Wise. Computers in Human Behavior, 2012

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Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis (2017, unknown): “Conversely, the effect was nil in Skues et al., 16 who sampled 393 Australian college students.”
Social Media Use in Higher Education: A Review (2018, background): “[33], “open” personalities use Facebook more and have more friends, mostly to share their various interests with others [80].”
Does Facebook make you lonely?: A meta analysis (2014, background): “Similarly, Skues, Williams, and Wise (2012) found that individuals with a high degree of loneliness used Facebook to make up for the lack of offline relationships.”
Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World? (2018, background): “When time spent online and total Internet use are measured, this is associated positively with loneliness (Lemieux, Lajoie, & Trainor, 2013; Matsuba, 2006; Skues, Williams, & Wise, 2012), but when time spent online chatting or number of Facebook friends is used, this is negatively associated with lo”
The Effects of Boredom, Loneliness, and Distress Tolerance on Problem Internet Use Among University Students (2016, background): “Researchers have shown that time spent on Facebook has a negative association with grade point average (GPA; Junco 2012; Junco and Cotten 2012; Kirschner and Karpinski 2010; Rosen et al. 2013).”