Table 5.
Correlations Between Social Networking Use, Quality of Social Networking Experiences, Rumination Variables, and Depressive Symptoms in Study 1 and Study 2
| Variable | Study 1a
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Study 2
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depressive symptoms | Corumination | Depressive rumination | Depressive symptoms at baseline | Depressive symptoms at follow-up | Corumination | Depressive rumination | |
| Number of times/day checking FB | .13 | .14** | .12 | .03 | −.01 | .02 | .00 |
| Total minutes/day using FB | .03 | .16** | .13 | .14 | .08 | .19*** | −.02 |
| Total minutes/day interacting FB | .01 | .18*** | .07 | .08 | .06 | .17** | −.02 |
| Total minutes/day IMing | .00 | .03 | −.02 | −.02 | .01 | .20** | .04 |
| Total minutes/day texting | .04 | .16** | .02 | .02 | −.09 | .11 | −.10 |
| Level of positivity across all interactions | −.12 | −.02 | −.23*** | −.17** | −.30*** | .06 | −.17** |
| Level of positivity of friend interactions | — | — | — | −.23*** | −.35*** | .11 | −.18*** |
| Level of positivity of romantic interactions | — | — | — | −.28*** | −.38*** | .01 | −.28*** |
| Level of negativity across all interactions | .15** | .18*** | .20*** | .22*** | .30*** | −.01 | .21*** |
| Level of negativity of friend interactions | — | — | — | .24*** | .31*** | −.03 | .21*** |
| Level of negativity of romantic interactions | — | — | — | .21*** | .29*** | .00 | .28*** |
| Feeling down or depressed across all interactions | .25*** | .19*** | .35*** | .28*** | .29*** | .05 | .34*** |
| Feeling down or depressed after friend interactions | — | — | — | .27*** | .33*** | .07 | .31*** |
| Feeling down or depressed after romantic interactions | — | — | — | .32*** | .36*** | .08 | .38*** |
Notes. FB = Facebook; IMing = instant messaging.
a
Study 1 did not discriminate among general, friend, and romantic interactions, and therefore, data cannot be reported for those variables.
**
p ≤ .01.
***
p ≤ .001 (two-tailed).