Internet Use and Happiness

Richard H. Hall

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39396-4_4

Internet Use and Happiness

Richard H. Hall

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Abstract

In order to explore the relationship between happiness and Internet use, an Internet Use Scale (IUS) was developed and administered to college students along with the Flourishing Scale [1] and the Satisfaction with Life Scale [2]. A factor analysis of the IUS revealed three components of Internet use (time spent on the Internet; use of the Internet for information gathering; and use of the Internet for affective expression). Time spent on the Internet was negatively related to both happiness measures; information gathering was positively related to Flourishing scores; and affective expression was unrelated to happiness.

Original language	American English
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9751
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39396-4_4
State	Published - Jul 1 2016

Keywords

College students
Electronic commerce
Happiness
Human computer interaction
Information gathering
Information use
Internet
Internet use
Students
Three component
Time spent

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Business

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