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Title: Distress, coping, and blogging: comparing new MySpace users by their intention to blog
Author(s): Baker, James R.; Moore, Susan M.
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.
Publication Type: Journal article
Research Centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Source: CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol. 11, no. 1 (2008), pp. 81-85
Publication Year: 2008
Keyword(s): Blogs; Interpersonal relations; Psychology; Social integration; Stress
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cpb.2007.9930
Copyright: Copyright © 2008 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publisher does not officially support author/institution self-archiving of either the post-print (final, revised accepted draft) and/or published version of full-text.
ISSN: 1094-9313
Peer Reviewed