Friendship quality in adolescence: the role of social media features, online social support and e-motions.

ABSTRACT: The last decade has seen a growing interest in understanding what role social media play in adolescent experiences, including friendship relationships. However, little is known about the associations of specific characteristics of social media and individual factors with friendship quality. This study was designed in line with the tenets of the so-called Transformation Framework (Nesi et al., 2018) with the aim of testing whether and how social media features, online social support, and online expressions of emotions play a role in adolescents' friendship quality. Participants were 744 Italian adolescents (64.5% females) with an average age of 15.9 years (SD = 1.31). First, a path analysis was conducted to test the hypothesized model on the whole sample of adolescents. Finall

SUBMITTER: Angelini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9465130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature