STUDY: College Students Who Are Anxious And Drink Alcohol Connect With Facebook
College freshmen who reported high levels of anxiousness and alcohol use appeared to be more connected with Facebook, while those who reported high levels of loneliness and anxiousness use the social network to connect with others, according to the results of a recent study.
College freshmen who reported high levels of anxiousness and alcohol use appeared to be more connected with Facebook, while those who reported high levels of loneliness and anxiousness use the social network to connect with others, according to the results of a recent study.
Russell Clayton, now a doctoral student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, conducted a survey of more than 225 freshmen, under the supervision of Randall Osborne, Brian Miller, and Crystal Oberle of Texas State University
Clayton also found that because alcohol use is generally viewed as normative, or socially acceptable, increased alcohol use may lead to increased emotional connectedness to Facebook, while the opposite was true for marijuana use, which is not as widely accepted.
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