The Relationship Between The Use Of Social Networking Sites And Quality Of Friendship:A Mediating Effect Between Self-Esteem And Online Positive Feedback

Objective the purpose of this study is to explore whether the use of social networking sites among teenagers can affect the quality of their friendship and the relationship between them,and whether self-esteem and online positive feedback will play an intermediary or other role between the use of social networking sites and the quality of friendship.It provides some reference for the future study of adolescent network interpersonal relationship,and expands and enriches the research field of social networking sites.Methods this study using stratified sampling method,while luzhou 1100 middle school students as subjects,using the active social networking sites use scale,passive social networking websites use scale,friendship quality scale,on-line measuring tools such as positive feedback scale,self-esteem scale based on the rich get richer method,promoting hypothesis,social compensation theory to investigate the influence of the social networks use in junior high school students on the quality of the friendship,with the self-esteem and positive feedback online mediation;Results there are significant gender differences in adolescent social initiative,passivity and friendship quality(t=-1.892,p<0.001;t=4.594,p<0.001;t=-6.421,p<0.001),and the use of active social networking sites,the use of passive social networking sites,the quality of friendship,self-esteem and online positive feedback were significantly different at grade level(t=4.229,p<0.01;t=3.720,p<0.05;t=7.315,p<0.001;t=3.848,p<0.001;t=5.973,p<5.973),there was no significant difference in whether the child was an only child or not,and there was a significant correlation between the major variables(p<0.001).Conclusion(1)There are a significant positive correlation between the social networking site use of teenagers,the quality of friendship and self-esteem and positive online feedback,(2)the active use of social networking sites,the passive use of social networking websites,the quality of friendship,self-esteem and positive feedback online are significant difference in grade,the social and active use of social networking sites,passive use of social networking websites,the quality of friendship are significant difference in gender,whether in as there was no significant difference in whether they were only children or not,(3)the adolescents social networking websites use can significantly positively predict the friendship quality,self-esteem and online positive feedback,(4)the use-pattern(initiative)of adolescent social networking sites has a significant influence on the quality of friendship,but it does not have an effect after the addition of mediating variables,but through self-esteem and online positive feedback,which play the role of chain complete intermediary and sequence intermediary in this process.