Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample
There has been much debate over whether the use of social network sites (SNSs) isolates people and truncates their relationships or, alternatively, provides beneficial connections with others. This debate has been framed by a growing body of international literature that explores the triadic relati...
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There has been much debate over whether the use of social network sites (SNSs) isolates people and truncates their relationships or, alternatively, provides beneficial connections with others. This debate has been framed by a growing body of international literature that explores the triadic relationship between the intensity of use of SNSs, the maintenance of social capital and the relationship between social capital and well-being/life satisfaction. Our exploratory research findings among students at Rhodes University, a small South African higher education institution, indicate that the historically shaped race and class cleavages impact on how this
triadic relationship plays out.
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| spelling | doaj-art-6ae1a56a8c3e41fb87059b4507432ce52025-01-20T08:54:22ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0133110.36615/jcsa.v33i1.1648Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sampleCharles Young0Larry Strelitz1Rhodes UniversityRhodes University There has been much debate over whether the use of social network sites (SNSs) isolates people and truncates their relationships or, alternatively, provides beneficial connections with others. This debate has been framed by a growing body of international literature that explores the triadic relationship between the intensity of use of SNSs, the maintenance of social capital and the relationship between social capital and well-being/life satisfaction. Our exploratory research findings among students at Rhodes University, a small South African higher education institution, indicate that the historically shaped race and class cleavages impact on how this triadic relationship plays out. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1648social network sites (SNSs)connections with otherstriadic relationshiptriadic relationship social capital and well-being/life satisfaction |
| spellingShingle | Charles Young Larry Strelitz Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample Communicare social network sites (SNSs) connections with others triadic relationship triadic relationship social capital and well-being/life satisfaction |
| title | Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample |
| title_full | Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample |
| title_fullStr | Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample |
| title_short | Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample |
| title_sort | exploring patterns of facebook usage social capital loneliness and well being among a diverse south african student sample |
| topic | social network sites (SNSs) connections with others triadic relationship triadic relationship social capital and well-being/life satisfaction |
| url | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1648 |
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