The Influence Of WeChat Communication On The Satisfaction Of College Students' Interpersonal Relationship: The Regulation Of Loneliness

The overall evaluation on interpersonal relationships,according to the individual standard,has formed interpersonal satisfaction.It is important for college students to obtain interpersonal satisfaction,which can help college students to increase happiness,to promote the healthy development of individual psychology,to strengthen learning investment.Interdependence Theory and Social Exchange Theory both suggest that the predictors about interpersonal satisfaction should be researched based on human interactions.However,with the rapid development of information technology,the way in which people interact with each other has gradually changed.On one hand,this research explores the effects of WeChat on college students' interpersonal satisfaction,and on the other hand,this research explores the role of loneliness in regulating the relations between the two factors.Questionnaires about WeChat Usage,Interpersonal satisfaction and the UCLA Loneliness Scale(the third edition)are employed in this research.358 college students in Shanghai have been surveyed in this research,including 237 boys and 121 girls.The research has obtained four important results.Firstly,college students' interpersonal satisfaction are at the upper level;WeChat usage is at the moderate level;loneliness of college students is at the middle level.College students' gender and the time on We Chat usage haven't had any influence on their interpersonal satisfaction,loneliness,WeChat interaction.However,college students at different grades have remarkable difference on interpersonal satisfaction,loneliness,and Wechat interaction.The interpersonal satisfaction has decreased in higher grades,but the percentage of loneliness has showed an upward trend,and WeChat interaction has showed diversity.Secondly,there is a significant negative correlation between college students' WeChat interaction and their interpersonal satisfaction,and loneliness has a significant negativecorrelation with their interpersonal satisfaction.Thirdly,college students' WeChat interaction and loneliness both can negatively predict their sense of satisfaction towards interpersonal satisfaction.Last,loneliness can play the role in regulating the relations between WeChat interaction and their sense of satisfaction towards interpersonal satisfaction.The interpersonal satisfaction of low-loneliness WeChat users are easily to be negatively predicted than the high-loneliness WeChat users by the WeChat interaction.This research has enriched the domestic social network research.The results can provide psychological basis for the professors to properly guide the use of network for college students,thus satisfying college students' needs of individual interpersonal relationships by using social network and promoting the development of college students' mental health by initiating the positive role of social network.