Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents

Previous studies investigated possible effects of Facebook mostly on hedonic well-being but not focusing on individuals fully function of psychological well-being. This study tries to fill the gap by using Ryffs’ scale of psychological well-being. The respondents of this study were 401 adolescents a...

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Main Authors: Naeemi, Somayyeh, Tamam, Ezhar, Hassan, Salleh, Bolong, Jusang
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37606/1/37606.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.376062015-12-15T03:18:33Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37606/ Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents Naeemi, Somayyeh Tamam, Ezhar Hassan, Salleh Bolong, Jusang Previous studies investigated possible effects of Facebook mostly on hedonic well-being but not focusing on individuals fully function of psychological well-being. This study tries to fill the gap by using Ryffs’ scale of psychological well-being. The respondents of this study were 401 adolescents aged between 13-16 years old, internet user, who lived in Selangor, Malaysia. Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyse the data. The results revealed that connectivity and organizing events on Facebook had a positive association with psychological well-being and information seeking has negative association with psychological well-being. This study offers two determinant factors on Facebook usage that can predict adolescents’ psychological well-being in Malaysian cultural context. Elsevier 2014-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37606/1/37606.pdf Naeemi, Somayyeh and Tamam, Ezhar and Hassan, Salleh and Bolong, Jusang (2014) Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 155. pp. 87-91. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814057279 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.261
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description Previous studies investigated possible effects of Facebook mostly on hedonic well-being but not focusing on individuals fully function of psychological well-being. This study tries to fill the gap by using Ryffs’ scale of psychological well-being. The respondents of this study were 401 adolescents aged between 13-16 years old, internet user, who lived in Selangor, Malaysia. Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyse the data. The results revealed that connectivity and organizing events on Facebook had a positive association with psychological well-being and information seeking has negative association with psychological well-being. This study offers two determinant factors on Facebook usage that can predict adolescents’ psychological well-being in Malaysian cultural context.
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author Naeemi, Somayyeh
Tamam, Ezhar
Hassan, Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
spellingShingle Naeemi, Somayyeh
Tamam, Ezhar
Hassan, Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
author_facet Naeemi, Somayyeh
Tamam, Ezhar
Hassan, Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
author_sort Naeemi, Somayyeh
title Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
title_short Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
title_full Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
title_fullStr Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among Malaysian adolescents
title_sort facebook usage and its association with psychological well-being among malaysian adolescents
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37606/1/37606.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37606/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814057279
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