The Relationships Of Social Media Use,Social Comparison And Graduate Students’ Love Anxiety

Social media support UGC(user generated content),and provide the opportunity of the share ideas,views and transmission channel for the users.In the background of web2.0 era,social media stick out from other interactive platform,with the unique,convenience,openness,personalized features.The development of social media in China is rapidly,and students have become the main force in the audience.It promotes the circulation of information,but also lets the audience in the environment of "information bomb" for a long time.This "information overload" makes people’s spirit of great pressure on the one hand,and also makes the audience’s life and social media inextricably linked on the other hand,deepen their dependence on social media.As a result,in the flood of information brought by social media,the audience also correspondingly more information to stimulate and thus induce more social comparison,thus enhancing the level of anxiety.In order to investigate the influence of the use of social media on the anxiety of graduate students,this paper designed two studies:Study one on the basis of open questionnaire survey,literature review,put forward graduate students theoretical hypotheses of social media use,and as a basis for preparation of Graduate Students’"Social Media Usage Questionnaire"(SMUQ).Study two use the graduate students’"social media usage questionnaire",the "Social Comparison Scale"(SCS)and the"Love Anxiety Scale"(LAS),to explore the relationship between usage of social media,social comparison,and love anxiety of Graduate Students.The results showed as follows:(1)The use of social media has a positive impact on graduate Students’ social comparison and love anxiety,that is,the higher the degree of social media use,the higher the level of social comparison and love anxiety.(2)Graduate Students’ social media use degree and social comparison can directly predict a certain degree of social anxiety.(3)Furthermore,the two factors of social media use-the degree of control and information acquisition,effects love anxiety indirectly through social comparison.