Research On The Effect Of Social Media Use On Loneliness Among College Students

On the basis of the theory of use and satisfaction,this paper focuses on the current situation of social media use and loneliness of college students in Dalian,using questionnaire survey as the main research method and focusing on the current situation of social media use and loneliness of college students in Dalian.And on the basis of the analysis of college students' social media use on the impact of loneliness.At the same time,combined with the method of in-depth interview,this paper investigates the reasons why social media use affects loneliness,and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures.The results show that the types of social media used by college students in Dalian are diversified at present.QQ,WeChat and Weibo are the most frequently used social media for college students.The main motivation for college students to use social media is to realize social communication identification and obtain information.College students have some dependence problems in the process of using social media,and they should pay attention to the tendency of increasing the degree of dependence in the future.In addition,the total level of loneliness of college students in Dalian is not very high at present,but there are different levels of loneliness.There is a negative correlation between college students' motivation to use social media and loneliness.Among them,the motivation of obtaining news,the motivation of social interaction identification and the average negative correlation between the motivation of social communication and their sense of loneliness showed a significant negative correlation,and the degree of explanation of loneliness was 6.2%.There is a positive correlation between college students' social media dependence and loneliness.Conflict and social gain dependence have a positive effect on their loneliness,and have 5.8% explanatory power to loneliness.Making proper use of social media to serve yourself can help ease loneliness,but if you become dependent or even addicted in the use of social media,it can exacerbate the feeling of loneliness.In view of this,the author thinks that it is necessary to guide college students from three aspects: individual,school and society.Use social media.