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Publication Date: 2012-May
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Relations between Media, Perceived Social Support and Personal Well-Being in Adolescence
Sarriera, Jorge Castella; Abs, Daniel; Casas, Ferran; Bedin, Livia Maria
Social Indicators Research, v106 n3 p545-561 May 2012
This paper's main objective is to show relations between interest in media, perceived social support and adolescents' personal well-being. For this purpose, 1,589 Brazilian adolescents answered a questionnaire containing Cummins' Personal Well-Being, Vaux's Social Support Appraisals and Casas' interest in media scales. The media in study are: The Internet, computer games, video games, computer, cell phone and television. For the data analysis this research used Structural Equation Modeling, a statistical methodology based on the confirmation of hypotheses previously established by theoretical frameworks on data. A final model of relations between media, support and well-being was obtained with a fit considered satisfactory by the literature. Implications of media on adolescents' well-being based on this model are considered.
Descriptors: Video Games, Structural Equation Models, Adolescents, Data Analysis, Correlation, Social Support Groups, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Television, Internet, Questionnaires, Measures (Individuals), Adolescent Attitudes, Interests
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