Distress, Coping, and Blogging: Comparing New Myspace Users by Their Intention to Blog

Abstract

New Myspace.com users (N ‫؍‬ 134, mean age 24.5 years) completed a questionnaire about their intent to blog and several psychosocial variables. Intending bloggers scored higher on psychological distress, self-blame, and venting and scored lower on social integration and satisfaction with number of online and face-to-face friends. Intending bloggers may view this activity as a potential mechanism for coping with distress in situations in which they feel inadequately linked with social supports. 81

Getting close from far away: Mediators of the association between attachment and blogging behavior

“…When the presence of these motivations was included as a mediator of the relationship between attachment anxiety and blogging intensity, the negative association remained but there was also evidence of a positive indirect effect through the presence of these motivations. Previous research suggests that emotional benefits can be gained from turning to blogging as a way to alleviate loneliness and form social connections (Baker & Moore, 2008;Guadagno et al, 2008;Oldmeadow et al 2013). Our findings suggest that individuals with higher levels of attachment anxiety may be drawn to blogging as a way to enable interpersonal trust through fostering community and social interaction (Beaudoin, 2008).…”

“…Personal blogs have been found to be an outlet for individuals who report low levels of satisfaction with their friends and tend to rely on counter-therapeutic coping strategies such as self-blame and venting, who then may use blogs to cope with distress in situations where they feel inadequately supported by offline relationships (Baker & Moore, 2008). Like journals, blogs can enable reflection and insight, and reduce distress through expressing and processing painful emotions.…”

studiVZ: social networking in the surveillance society

“…Specific research that has been conducted on SNS includes: appearance and attractiveness on Facebook (Tom Walther et al 2008), business and policy implications of SNS and other ''participatory Web and user-generated content'' (OECD 2007), effects of MySpace and YouTube on election campaigns (Gueorguieva 2008), factors that influence privacy settings (Lewis et al 2008), friendship (Boyzd 2006, gender (Magnuson and Dundes 2008;Cohen and Shade 2008), implications for libraries (Charnigo and Barnett-Ellis 2007;Harris et al 2007), language use (Carroll 2008;Herring et al 2007), media theory (Beer 2006), medical education McGee and Begg 2008;Thompson et al 2008), music culture (Baym 2007;Beer 2008a), pharmacy education (Cain 2008), place and identity (Goodings et al 2007), psychological distress (Baker and Moore 2008), research ethics (Moreno et al 2008), self-esteem and sociability (Zywica and Danowski 2008), SNS as virtual learning environments (Mitchell and Watstein 2007) and their role in education (Mazer et al 2007), studies on specific users such as African Americans (Byrne 2007) or the Korean site Cyworld (Kim and Yun 2007;Haddon and Kim 2007), taste performance (Liu 2007), teenage life (Boyd 2008), the fusion of public and privacy (Lange 2007), the rise of marketing relationships on SNS as a challenge for public relations (Meadows-Klues 2008), and work skills (Bernardo 2007). Surveillance and social networking sites thus far have with some exceptions (e.g.…”

Impact of Faculty Demographic Characteristics on Educational Interaction via Social Media

“…As social media begins to draw attention of academicians, researchers have begun to explore the characteristics of social media users. Yet, most studies have been focusing on specific social networking site and target mainly young users [2,3,11,25,28]. Not only young students but faculty have created social networking sites profiles to connect with their students in a more personable, informal and virtual space [20,27].…”