The relationship between emotional dependency on facebook and psychological well-being of adolescents aged 13-16

In most countries, Facebook is one of the top social networking sites among children and adolescents. Several studies have investigated the effect of Facebook dependency on individuals’ psychological well-being. However, inadequate studies have examined the impacts of Facebook in eudaimonic well-being. The current study explores how emotional dependence on Facebook relates to psychological well-being in eudaimonic approach. A total of 401, 13 to 16 yearsold who studied at an upper secondary school in Malaysia participated in this study. We expected a negative association between emotional dependence on Facebook and psychological wellbeing. The moderation effect of self-efficacy was examined in the current research. The results of structural equation modeling revealed that emotional dependence on Facebook negatively effects adolescents’ overall psychological well-being. The influence was more pronounced on autonomy, purpose in life, and positive relationship with others. The results also demonstrated that high self-efficacy did not reduce negative impacts of Facebook emotional dependence on adolescents’ psychological well-being

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 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

Relationship between facebook use and psychological well-being among secondary school pupils in Malaysia

Increasing Facebook usage among adolescents has raised more studies and concerns about psychological well-being. This study investigated the relationships of frequency of Facebook use by purpose and Facebook dependency with psychological well-being in eudaimonic approach. It also examined possible moderation effect of self-efficacy and extrovert/ introvert personality in the relationship between three constructs of frequency of Facebook use by purpose and Facebook dependency with overall psychological well-being. A total of 401 secondary school students aged 13-16 were surveyed by using self-administered questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypotheses. The study found a significant positive relationship of friends’ connectivity and organizing event with overall psychological well-being, and a significant negative relationship of information seeking about others and Facebook dependency with overall psychological well-being. The result of study revealed that information seeking about others, friends’ connectivity, organizing events and Facebook dependency predict 34 percent of variance in overall psychological well-being. It also found that extrovert/ introvert personality moderate the relationship of information seeking about others and organizing event with overall psychological well-being, and self-efficacy moderate the relationship of organizing events and overall psychological well-being. In term of theoretical contribution, the study clarified the nature of media influence and reaffirmed how media effect on different aspect of psychological well-being. Specifically, the study clarified the relationship between frequency of Facebook use with eudaimonic well-being of users. In term of practice, the finding can be useful for youth development practitioners,families and subsequently adolescents. Youth developments practitioners through educational workshops can train families by giving appropriate awareness about Facebook usage (based on the information of this study), then families by using this knowledge can monitor their children’s online behavior