A Correlation Study Between Facebook Usage and Self
A Correlation Study Between Facebook Usage and Self Esteem
This study is focused on individual self-esteem of Facebook users. Based on previous correlation tests, evidence suggest that frequent Facebook users have a significantly different level of self-esteem from people who are infrequent users (CITE). For a classroom assignment, a team of students from the Experimental Psychology classroom hypothesized there would be a correlation between face book usage and individual self esteem.
Methodology
Subjects:
Participants in this study were six students from the University’s experimental psychology online classroom. The designated team consisted of five women and one man with ages ranging between 32 and 57 years old. Each subject completed a survey containing 26 questions on face book use. Specific questions about self- esteem were singled out and converted to a ratio scale. The responses were rated from one to five, with one being the lowest and five being the highest. For the sake of having an experiment the yellow group guessed which face book users were infrequent and which face book users were infrequent based on their self esteem scores For this study an infrequent user was defined as someone who spends less than two hours per day on Facebook and frequent users as someone who spends more than two hours.
Procedure:
After the survey was completed, the yellow group team members compiled the scores to calculate the T-score. The purpose was to find out whether there was a significant difference between the two groups regarding their self esteem. The team’s research required a mean. The mean results were as follows:
S1=1.73 S2=12.3 K or DF=4 T= - .9148 T critical assuming a 95% accuracy=2.776
Since -.9148 < 2.776 the team rejected the null hypothesis (see table 1) After the T-test scores had been calculated, the team calculated the F-Ratio for the four different groups. The team broke the data into the following categories: those under 40
This study is focused on individual self-esteem of Facebook users. Based on previous correlation tests, evidence suggest that frequent Facebook users have a significantly different level of self-esteem from people who are infrequent users (CITE). For a classroom assignment, a team of students from the Experimental Psychology classroom hypothesized there would be a correlation between face book usage and individual self esteem.
Methodology
Subjects:
Participants in this study were six students from the University’s experimental psychology online classroom. The designated team consisted of five women and one man with ages ranging between 32 and 57 years old. Each subject completed a survey containing 26 questions on face book use. Specific questions about self- esteem were singled out and converted to a ratio scale. The responses were rated from one to five, with one being the lowest and five being the highest. For the sake of having an experiment the yellow group guessed which face book users were infrequent and which face book users were infrequent based on their self esteem scores For this study an infrequent user was defined as someone who spends less than two hours per day on Facebook and frequent users as someone who spends more than two hours.
Procedure:
After the survey was completed, the yellow group team members compiled the scores to calculate the T-score. The purpose was to find out whether there was a significant difference between the two groups regarding their self esteem. The team’s research required a mean. The mean results were as follows:
S1=1.73 S2=12.3 K or DF=4 T= - .9148 T critical assuming a 95% accuracy=2.776
Since -.9148 < 2.776 the team rejected the null hypothesis (see table 1) After the T-test scores had been calculated, the team calculated the F-Ratio for the four different groups. The team broke the data into the following categories: those under 40
References: Myers, A., & Hansen, C. (2006). Experimental psychology (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/ Wadsworth Publishing Co.