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THE UNIVERSITY FACEBOOKEXPERIENCE: THE ROLE OF SOCIALNETWORKING ON THE QUALITY OFINTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
~ Jessica Moorman and Anne Bowker
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
This study examined online social networking usage and its impact on relationshipquality and psychological adjustment. 541 Canadian undergraduate students completedquestionnaires focused on Facebook usage trends and the time spent in onlineinteractions. Students were initially categorized according to their time spend onFacebook and a subset (N=284) completed questionnaires designed to assess offline
(face to face) relationship quality, online interaction quality and content as well as levelsof self-esteem and depression. Results indicated that Facebook Usage was notsignificantly related to psychological adjustment. However, results also suggested asignificant positive relationship between friendship quality and self-esteem underconditions of low Facebook Usage. Furthermore, results indicate that it may not be thenumber of hours spent daily on Facebook, but the extent to which relationships aremediated online that predicts psychological adjustment. Relationship maintenance andcoping with relationship conflict online significantly and negatively predicted levels ofself-esteem.
Key Words: online community, psychological adjustment, online interaction,relationship quality
Introduction
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The extent to which online social networking sites impede or enhance the social
well-being of individuals in various aspects of their interpersonal lives has only begun
to be studied. The use of Facebook and similar social networking websites is a
relatively recent phenomenon (Hoffman, 2008), so the growth of Facebooks influence
on how users experience and mediate between offline and online contexts has not been
explored yet in great detail in the literature and certainly not to the extent to which
frequent usage of Facebook affects an individuals well-being. Much of the early
research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be
connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group, permitting them to form
communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared physical geography
(Wellman et al., 1996). A hallmark of this early research is the presumption that when
online and offline social networks overlapped, the eventual result would be a face-to
face meeting (Wellman et al, 1996).
Lampe, Ellison and Steinfield (2007) suggest however, that Facebook is mostly
used to maintain or reinforce existing offline relationships, as opposed to establishing
new ones online. Characteristically, there is usually some common offline activity
among individuals who friend one another, such as a shared course or extracurricular
activity (Lampe et al., 2007). Boyd (2008) asserts that Facebook enables users to socialize
with friends even when unable to do so in offline situations; thereby inferring that users
may resort to online interaction over face-to-face connections to socialize among peers.
Online social networking site researchers have discovered a trending towards the use of
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Facebook for a)social searching, finding out information about offline contacts and b)
social browsing, the use of online networking sites to foster new connections,
sometimes with the aim of connecting offline afterwards (Joinson, 2008). A survey of
over 2,000 University students found suggestive evidence that the primary use for
Facebook was for social searching (Joinson, 2008); that is, to find out more information
about and make connections with people who they have met briefly offline, in class, or
through current friends (Joinson, 2008). But what does this say about the quality of a
friend in the basic online context and how does this impact fostering positive offline
relationships if people are turning to online networks for social connectedness?
Furthermore, the role of social networking and its effects on young adults has
largely been ignored (Fisher, Sollie, & Morrow, 1986) in terms of the psychological
implications and the impact on quality of relationships. Epstein (1983) suggests that
many researchers have concluded that social ties and interpersonal connections are
needed to foster and develop positive social skills and that reciprocal relations promote
positive mental health and psychological adjustment. In many ways social interaction
on the Internet resembles that of traditional, face-to-face modes of interaction and
enables further accessibility to close relations (Bargh, McKenna, & Fitzsimons, 2002);
prompting overall connectedness and well-being (Bargh et al., 2002). However, the
qualities of Internet communication and interaction, such as its greater anonymity, that
is known to produce greater intimacy and closeness online, are not necessarily
demonstrating equally consistent offline results among users (Bargh et al., 2002). The
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extent to which quality relationships are maintained or hindered as a result of online
social networking use is a factor which may have profound implications on the general
well-being of its users, and something that this study hopes to evaluate more
qualitatively.
The present study was a two-phase analytic study with three main objectives: 1.
To determine the nature of Facebook Usage in a Canadian university sample. That is,
how much time does the average student spend on Facebook, how many friends do
they typically have and what types of interactions do they engage in?; 2. To examine the
relationship between time spent on Facebook and the quality of off-line relationships;
and 3. To examine the role of relationship quality as a mediating factor in the
relationship between Facebook Usage and psychological well-being. Furthermore,
gender differences in relation to Facebook Usage and its implications was also
examined.
Method
Participants
Phase 1 participants were 1289 university students recruited from the Carleton
University Psychology participant pool for the initial part of the study. Participants
ranged in age from 18 to 56 years (M=20.4, SD=1.67).
Participants were placed into one of three Facebook Usage groups, based on the
number of hours spent on Facebook each day: a high usage group (N=83), an average,
or medium, usage group (N=349) and a low usage group (N=803) based on their self-
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reported scores. After removing 54 participants due to missing data regarding their
Facebook usage, a random subset of Phase 1 participants were then invited via email to
participate in Phase 2 of the current study which aimed to gather specific descriptive
data on Facebook, relationship quality and well-being measures. Phase 2 consisted of
284 students (50 males, 234 females) who were each categorized into four age categories
with (1) 17-20, (2) 21-24, (3) 25-30, and (4) 31 and older into the existing Facebook Usage
groups: high usage group (N=38), a medium usage group (N=74) and a low usage
group (N=172).
Materials
Phase 1.Online questionnaires were used to evaluate participants self-reported
Facebook usage in Phase 1 (including usage number of Facebook friends, time spent per
day on Facebook and reasons and purposes for engaging in Facebook use). Participants
were asked to indicate how much time they spent on Facebook on a daily basis using
categorical criteria ranging from 10 minutes or less to 4-5 hours per day. They were also
asked to indicate how many Facebook Friends they had on their profile using similar
grouped categories (i.e. between 51-100 friends, 100-199 friends, etc.).
Phase 2. Six online items were used to investigate attitudes towards Facebook
usage, engagement in Facebook activities, relationship and friendship quality and
psychological adjustment (as defined by self-esteem and depression). All Phase 2
participants completed an online package of surveys that addressed topics in the order
described below.
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Close friendships. Participants completed the Friendship Activity Questionnaire to
determine quality of close friendships(Bukowski, Hoza, & Boivin, 1994).
Romantic relationships. Participants who were in a dating relationship for which
they have regular contact (i.e. daily or weekly contact) were asked to rate their current
romantic relationship on six subscales(Fletcher, Simpsom, & Thomas, 2000).
Psychological well-being.To assess participant overall psychological well-being,
participants were asked to complete the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale
(CES-D; Radloff, 1977) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES; Rosenberg, 1965).
Procedure
Participants were recruited through the universitys psychology participation
pool. Phase 1 participants were asked to complete the 2009 Mass Testing package,
which collected basic demographic information and initial Facebook usage patterns. A
subset of Phase 1 participants who completed the initial Mass Testing were then
selected for Phase 2 of the study based on their Facebook usage group scores from the
Mass Testing package. After indicating an interest in the study, Phase 2 participants
were individually contacted by email and given the web link to the online survey
package as well as the necessary login credentials. Although the link to the survey was
hosted on the universitys Web server, questionnaires were posted on the web via
Survey Monkey, an online survey software company. The total battery took
approximately 60 minutes to complete. Participants were recruited over a 3-week
timeframe in January 2009 and data was collected over the course of a two-month
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period during the winter of 2009/2010.
Results
Phase 1
For preliminary analyses, participant responses were grouped according to
specific categories for each variable in order to easily compare each variable and factor
as a function of age and gender. For Age, participants were grouped into one of four
age groups: (1) 17-20, (2) 21-24, (3) 25-30 and (4) 31 and older. Participant responses
regarding the number of Facebook friends were grouped into one of three Facebook
friend groups: (1) 0-199 friends, (2) 200-499 friends, and (3) Greater than 500. In terms
of time spent on Facebook, participants were grouped into one of three usage groups:
(1) an hour or less, (2) between 1-4 hours and (3) More than 4 hours.
Chi square analyses and ANOVA were both performed to examine possible
variability in Facebook Usage (defined in hours) as a function of age and gender. In
general, females reported a greater number of Facebook friends than did males x (6,
N=1289) = .001p < .001, with males being over-represented in the lowest friend
category (between 0-199) while females were over-represented in the highest Facebook
friends category (greater than 500). Results also indicated a significant relationship
between gender and the number of Facebook Usage hours x (6, N=1289) = .001p < .001,
with females reporting greater usage as compared to males in the highest usage group.
Not surprisingly, when analyzing participant age as a function of Facebook Usage
hours, results indicated a significant relationship between age and the number of
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(LSD) results revealed a significant overall effect of age F(12, 1259 ) = 5.02,p=.000,
Wilkss Lambda significance = .953 , p2 = .016, showing that younger participants
differed than older participants in terms of their Facebook Usage behavior.
Overall, younger participants (aged 17-20) rated Social Engagement and Daily
Component aspect of Facebook significantly lower than older adults (aged 31 and
older). Younger participants rated the Stimulation Aspect of Facebook significantly
lower than participants aged 21-24, however both younger participants and participants
aged 21-24 rated the New Relationships aspect of Facebook significantly higher than
older participants (aged 25-30 and 31 and older).
Phase 2
The purpose of Phase 2 was to examine the potential relationship between
Facebook Usage and psychological adjustment as measured by both depression and
self-esteem scores. Of particular interest was the potential mediating role of offline
relationship quality. Relationships between psychological adjustment and managing
relationships on Facebook were also explored.
Correlational analysis. Analyses revealed a number of significant relationships
between interpersonal relationship quality and psychological adjustment. Both
romantic relationship quality and friendship quality were positively correlated with
general self-esteem. Participants with a higher quality of interpersonal relationships,
both friendship-based and romantic, felt more positively about themselves.
Furthermore, both relationship quality and friendship quality were negatively
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correlated with depression. Participants with a better overall quality of interpersonal
relationships reported lower levels of depression. However, Facebook Usage (as
measured by hours spent on Facebook per day) was not significantly related to
psychological adjustment.
Regression analyses. Regression analyses were conducted to examine the
relationship between Facebook Usage and psychological adjustment and the role that
interpersonal relationships play in this relationship. For the purposes of the regression
analysis, Facebook Usage was re-coded into high and low groups (low usage= less than
one hour of usage, high usage= one hour or more usage).
Of particular interest was whether interpersonal relationships (both romantic
based and friendship) mediated the relationship between Facebook Usage,
operationalized as hours spent on Facebook, and psychological adjustment. It was
expected that those individuals who reported greater Facebook Usage would tend to
have lower offline relationship quality and thus lower levels of psychological
adjustment. However, contrary to the hypothesis, and consistent with correlational
analysis, there was no significant relationship between Facebook hours and
psychological adjustment. Given the fact that Facebook Usage was unrelated to
psychological adjustment, mediation analyses were no longer possible. As such,
regression analyses were then used to determine potential significant interactions
between Facebook hours and relationship and friendship quality.
Predicting self-esteem.
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relationships offline, a principal components Factor Analysis with varimax rotation was
conducted on participant Facebook usage behaviors and revealed two factors: (a)
Relationship Maintenance (e.g. I would rather message someone on Facebook than
phone them or text them; percentage of total variance accounted for=28%; Cronbachs
alpha=.81) and (b) Coping with Conflict (e.g. I have blocked a friend when we have
been in a fight with each other; percentage of total variance accounted for=17.77%;
Cronbachs alpha=.75). Results showed no significant gender or age differences. Due to
the lack of main effects of Facebook Usage, subsequent regression analyses were
conducted using relationship management on Facebook (as measured by Relationship
maintenance on Facebook and Coping with relationship conflict on Facebook) as
predictors of psychological well-being.
Predicting self-esteem. On Step 1, both variables (Relationship maintenance and
Coping with Conflict) significantly and negatively predicted levels of self-esteem (= -
.08 and -.05, respectively). That is, greater management on-line in terms both of
relationship maintenance and coping with conflict were negatively associated with self-
esteem.
Predicting depression. With respect to maintaining relationships and coping
with conflict, both variables significantly predicted levels of depression (= .12 and .12,
respectively).
Discussion
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The current study was interested in how university students use Facebook and
how this online community can impact interpersonal relationships. With regard to
gender differences. Females had a greater number of friends and reported more activity
in the highest Facebook Usage group than did males. Furthermore, as indicated in the
previous section, the reasons for engaging in Facebook activity also differed by gender,
with females doing more things on Facebook than males; acts such as using Facebook to
engage in potential new relationships and including it as part of their daily routine.
Research has demonstrated consistently that friendships of females are generally
characterized by greater intimacy than those of males and are often in greater numbers
than those of males (Beneson & Christakos, 2003). Scholars also argue that females are
socialized to be more oriented towards relationships than boys, which may not only
lead to higher levels of perceived intimacy but also in being more consciously involved
in establishing large social groups (Gilligan, 1982; Way & Greene, 2006). Gender
differences in the current study therefore demonstrate the greater propensity for
females to have a greater number of friends and to use Facebook as a means for
interacting with friends and romantic partners because it allows for one-to-one access
while maintaining a publicly visible large social network. Clark and Ayers (1993) have
also found that during later adolescence to young adulthood, females come to expect
greater intimacy and self-disclosure from their close friends than males. Therefore,
females, in terms of their greater number of Facebook friends, could potentially be
interacting on Facebook as a means to initiate intimacy without having to face the
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potential rejection which occurs in face-to-face interactions, which explains the
difference in Facebook friends as compared to males.
It was hypothesized that participants who reported greater Facebook Usage would
demonstrate lower psychological adjustment. This was not the case. Results revealed
that there was no main effect of Facebook Usage on psychological adjustment. This
indicates that time spent on Facebook does not impact the level of self-esteem or
depression of users. Although we had hypothesized that total time on Facebook would
be related to indices of psychological well-being, one reason perhaps why we did not
find a significant relationship was that participants had a difficult time estimating the
time they spent on Facebook. This may be particularly so because frequent internet
users tend to have multiple applications open at one time, perhaps even all day, and
may underestimate the seamless shift among them (Budiman, 2008).
Furthermore, because of the difficulty in creating a well-structured and definitive
measure of Facebook Usage, hours spent on Facebook appeared to inaccurately
quantify Facebook Usage. This affected the ability to examine whether there were
differences in Facebook Usage, as hours did not capture usage purposes, on
psychological adjustment. Consequently, further exploratory analyses examined the
differences in the ways in which people made use of Facebook in managing their
relationships to provide further insight into this interest area.
Consistent with previous research, the quality of a relationship did positively
predict psychological adjustment. This relationship was strongest for participants who
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were in the low Facebook Usage category (less than one hour a day). This may suggest
that those who spent less time on Facebook, perceive offline relationships as more
important than the online interactions they have. These low Facebook users choose to
manage and maintain close interpersonal relationships differently offline, than those
who engage in greater Facebook Usage which in turn appears to predict higher levels of
self-esteem.
This particular finding coincides with past research which suggests that the
establishment of intimacy and quality within personal relationships develops through
the participation in shared activities and discussion of shared interests and personal
issues (Lee & Boyer, 2007). Friendships which originate on the internet are generally
perceived as less close and of lower quality than offline grounded relationships because
they are so new and the interactive physical cues are lacking (Kim, LaRose, & Peng,
2009; Lee & Boyer, 2007); which in turn may predict a weaker relationships between
interpersonal relationship quality and self-esteem (Lee & Boyer, 2007; Mesch & Talmud,
2006). Perhaps individuals who are infrequent Facebook users then, show a stronger
link between self-esteem and their interpersonal connections because most of their
interpersonal relationships are in fact, off-line.
Results revealed that there was no significant relationship between friendship
quality and depression however, there was a significant main effect of relationship
quality and depression. Participants with greater quality of romantic relationship offline
reported lower levels of depression. This is consistent with previous research
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(Christofides, Muise, & Desmarais, 2009), which indicates that Facebook may actually
increase the likelihood of jealousy and thus increase the level of relational conflict as a
result of online romantic interactions which may not exist otherwise in offline
relationships as our results showed. Therefore, results from the current study suggest
that users who have higher quality off line romantic relationship, show lower levels of
depression and arguably, lowered levels of stress and relational conflict.
Finally, exploratory analyses revealed significant differences in terms of the
functionality of Facebook on both psychological adjustment and managing
interpersonal relations. Of particular interest was the idea of managing relations
through Facebook and the potential effects this may have on psychological adjustment.
Results revealed a significant and negative relationship for both relationship
maintenance and coping with conflict and the prediction of self-esteem. That is, the
greater the amount of relational management on-line in terms of both keeping in touch
with friends and loved ones and dealing with conflict within said relationships, the
lower the level of individual self-esteem.
While managing relationships on-line did not predict relationship quality,
managing relationships using Facebook as a vehicle does predict depression and is
furthermore consistent with research suggesting that prolonged internet use has been
shown to predict greater levels of depression and loneliness (Morgan & Cotton, 2003).
Results also revealed a significant interaction between coping with conflict, relationship
maintenance and relationship (romantic) quality and its effectiveness on predicting
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depression. This indicates that the more individuals are using Facebook to replace face-
to-face interactions and to manage their personal relationships, the more likely they are
to have reduced relationship quality and consequently higher levels of depression.
Interestingly, there were no significant gender or age differences between participants
in terms of managing relationships on Facebook. As past research demonstrates there
are visible trends in terms of Facebook use and preferences for what people are doing
online, however, there is little to suggest that there are differences in Facebook Usage in
terms of relationship maintenance and coping with conflict; although perhaps these
variables need to be quantified differently for future research.
The findings from the present study demonstrate that Facebook does affect
friendship quality, but more importantly, that time spent in relationship maintenance
on Facebook may in fact be affecting psychological adjustment. These findings are
relevant to the larger understanding of emerging Facebook research and point to the
practical implications associated with internet usage, purposes for engaging in
extensive internet uses, and evaluation of this new social networking media on
interpersonal relationship quality. Results from this study may provide further insight
into new approaches for improving offline social networking, communication and
coping with relationships for emerging adults. It is essential to future research that
specific purposes for engaging in, and activities on, Facebook be targeted and properly
assessed to be able to determine which individual users are most subject to potential
decreases in psychological well-being as a result of online communication and
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relationships.
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