The Effect of Social Networking Site Use on Depression in Graduate Students: The Mediating Role of Negative Social Comparison and Moderating Role of Implicit Personality Theories.

Zhenzhen ChenYang WuHongyu MaGeng-Feng NiuWeixin Wang

Published in: Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)

Negative social comparison mediates the relationship between SNS use and depression; in addition, individual differences in implicit personality theory (the entity theorist vs. incremental theorist) moderate the link between negative social comparison and depression.

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