Social Media and Belonging
Faculty Sponsor(s)
Bethany Hoff, Ph.D.,Jenny Lee Vaydich, Ph.D.
Presentation Type
Event
Project Type
Research in progress
Primary Department
Psychology
Description
Social media platforms are becoming increasingly attractive to younger generations. Our current ongoing study will hopefully reveal how belonging is affected by social media use. This relationship has not been extensively researched. We’d like to narrow down the list of measures in our preliminary survey to those that most efficiently and accurately measure our constructs of interest. Previous research suggests that there is a negative correlation between social media and a student's academic achievement, school connectedness, and psychosocial maladjustment. Engaging on social media platforms could be a plausible predictor of students’ sense of belonging.
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Social Media and Belonging
Social media platforms are becoming increasingly attractive to younger generations. Our current ongoing study will hopefully reveal how belonging is affected by social media use. This relationship has not been extensively researched. We’d like to narrow down the list of measures in our preliminary survey to those that most efficiently and accurately measure our constructs of interest. Previous research suggests that there is a negative correlation between social media and a student's academic achievement, school connectedness, and psychosocial maladjustment. Engaging on social media platforms could be a plausible predictor of students’ sense of belonging.
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