Teleworking has rapidly grown and become the prevailing work mode. Married teleworkers may experience increased work-family conflict, while single teleworkers may experience loneliness. This study aims to investigate how teleworkers' information ...

• This study explores how teleworkers' information reception affects work-family conflict, loneliness, and well-being.
• Accurate information reduces work-family conflict; timely information lessens loneliness.
• Work-family conflict ...

Rejection-sensitive people may find online dating an ideal way to explore romantic relationships because of its relatively low social cost and their high control of impression management. However, they may also experience negative events during ...

• A path model connecting rejection sensitivity and loneliness was proposed.
• 459 users of main online dating applications in China completed a survey.
• Both social compensation and social enhancement hypothesis are supported.
• ...

As individuals age, mental and physical impairment can emerge and impact their well-being. Previous research on social participation in older adults has typically focused on specific activities or failed to distinguish between different forms of ...

• Older adults’ online social participation (OSP) quadratically impacts loneliness.
• Low to moderate levels of OSP are desirable and can reduce loneliness.
• High levels of OSP intensify loneliness.
• Offline social participation ...

Cyberbullying may create psychological well-being problems and several coping strategies can augment the strength between cyberbullying and psychological well-being issues. The current study endeavors to investigate the association between cyberbullying ...

The growing prevalence of conversational artificial intelligence (CAI), digital agents that talk and respond socially to users, has increased the likelihood of over-dependency on this new technology. Drawing on the interaction of ...

• Social anxiety is positively associated with problematic use of conversational AI (PUCAI).

While loneliness has been recognised as a public health issue for a long time, it has become one of the biggest challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing measures introduced to contrast the COVID-19 outbreaks have led to the ...

Anthropomorphism can provide psychological closeness and compensate for loneliness; therefore, it has been assumed that lonely people are more likely to anthropomorphize robots and will exhibit preferences for anthropomorphic robots. However, to ...

• We explored the loneliness–robot anthropomorphism link with participants from China and the US.
• The loneliness–robot anthropomorphism link was more negative in Chinese (versus American) participants.
• Growth anthropomorphism ...

Fear of missing out (FoMO) is a pervasive apprehension that others might have rewarding experiences from which one is absent. Recently, FoMO has been considered a negative aspect of social media's popularity. However, the neural basis of FoMO ...

• The study sheds light on FoMO through the lens of a complex brain network.
• The emergence of FoMO is based on excessive scale-free brain networks.
• Loneliness partially mediates the relationship between complex brain network and ...

The aim of this study was to explore the moderating role of psychosocial well-being in the relationship between gaming motivation and problematic gaming among problematic and recreational online gamers. Data from 511 online video game players (M = 24.89, ...

There has been a proliferation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social media platforms and users over the past decade. Previous studies have reported mixed effects of social media use on well-being, but less is known ...

• LGBT social media use may involve both benefits and risks.
• Effects of LGBT ...

In the context of South Korea, the present study investigated the social benefits of utilizing the two popular metaverse platforms, Roblox and Zepeto. Focusing on young generations, millennials and Generation Z, it examined if enhanced ...

• The metaverse benefits young generations by enhancing their sense of social presence within the virtual environment.

Loneliness and social isolation are recognized as critical public health issues. Older people are at greater risk of loneliness and social isolation as they deal with things like living alone, loss of family or ...

To combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus, countries enforced quarantines, physical and social restrictions on people. These restrictions left many feeling isolated and lonely due to prolonged quarantines and lockdowns. This raises questions ...

In this paper, I analyse a specific kind of loneliness that can be experienced in the networked life, namely “extended loneliness”. I claim that loneliness—conceived of as stemming from a lack of satisfying relationships to others—can arise from ...

Although perceived social isolation (i.e., feelings of loneliness and a perceived lack of social support) has been shown to be associated with the involvement in cyberbullying behaviors, little is known about the mediating mechanisms underlying this ...

Loneliness is considered an epidemic in the United States due to its widespread and harmful effects to psychological and physiological well-being. Twitter provides the option of anonymity, a large audience and a space where feelings of ...

• We examine the responses to self-disclosures of loneliness on Twitter in 2019-2021.

During the periods of social isolation to contain the advance of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, educational institutions have had the challenge to adopt technological strategies not only to ensure continuity in students’ classes, but also to support their ...

Given the rapid development of internet and dramatic change it has brought to human life, this study examines the effect of internet use on well-being in rural China. Findings indicate that the act of engaging with internet and the increase in its ...

The current study focused on people with intellectual disability (ID), who have unique disadvantages that place them at greater risk for negative outcomes due to COVID-19. The study goals are three-fold: (a) To examine whether differences in ...

Drawing on the self-development theory (SDT), this study examines the relation between the factors that motivate online gaming and the effects of addiction, shyness, and loneliness. The authors have modified the SDT theory by adding intrinsic and ...