Study Oh et al. (2014): study US Michigan 2014

Public

Internet users, Michigan, USA, 2014

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 339

Non Response

Assessment

Diary
Respondents were given a diary survey booklet and asked to record their first session of SNS use each evening over a 5-day period(Sunday-Thursday). The title page of the booklet included a brief introduction about the study including the purpose of the survey and general instructions for keeping the diary. The second page then contained questions about participants’ general SNS use and detailed instructions on how to respond to the questions about their SNS use and feelings after their SNS session on each day.

Correlate

Authors's Label

Positive and negative affect

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Cronbach alpha: Positive affect:: .86, negative affect ; .81

Remarks

PANAS: Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988 The exploratory factor analysis with the Varimax rotation was performed to validate our measure. Thirteen items yielded a two-factor solution, namely positive affect (weekly average = 4.08, SD = .04, a = .86) and negative affect (weekly average = 2.47, SD = 1.01, a = 81).

Distribution

Weekly positive affect M = 4,08 SD =0,04
weekly negative affect M = 2,47, Sd =1,01

Operationalization

Affect was measured with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
(PANAS) scale supplemented
by items that came out from a pretest through undergraduate students in a media research class. Students were
asked to indicate other feelings they had after using social networking
sites that were not listed in PANAS, which yielded thirteen
items in total. Each item was measured with a 7-point scale ranging
from (1) definitely false to (7) definitely true.

Observed Relation with Happiness