Daily social media use, social ties, and emotional well-being in later life.

ABSTRACT: Older American adults are increasingly utilizing communication technologies, but research has seldom explored older adults' daily social media use and its interface with other "offline" social ties. To explore a complementary and/or compensatory function of social media in later life, this study employed data from the Daily Experiences and Well-Being Study (2016-2017) to examine associations between daily social media use, daily social encounters, social network structure, and daily mood. Community-dwelling older adults (N = 310; M_age = 73.96) reported on their overall social network structure (diversity in types of social ties and size of network), their daily social encounters in-person and by phone, social media use, and emotional well-being for 5 to 6 days. Mul

SUBMITTER: Kim YK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10508904 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature