Table 2. Differences in online social support between users and nonusers of SNS.
NUsers | MUsers | SDUsers | NNonusers | MNonusers | SDNonusers | t | df | p | Cohen’s d | |
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Note. SNS = social networking sites. | ||||||||||
Wave 1 | 2,405 | 2.15 | 0.86 | 962 | 1.77 | 0.84 | 11.86 | 1,792.73 | < .001 | 0.45 |
Wave 2 | 1,949 | 2.11 | 0.86 | 728 | 1.74 | 0.82 | 10.35 | 1,357.82 | < .001 | 0.44 |
Wave 3 | 1,633 | 2.10 | 0.87 | 640 | 1.85 | 0.82 | 6.28 | 1,231.89 | < .001 | 0.29 |
Wave 4 | 1,373 | 2.08 | 0.86 | 580 | 1.93 | 0.85 | 3.47 | 1,095.31 | < .001 | 0.29 |
Wave 5 | 1,141 | 2.05 | 0.86 | 486 | 1.89 | 0.87 | 3.28 | 907.40 | .001 | 0.18 |
Wave 6 | 928 | 2.04 | 0.84 | 402 | 1.87 | 0.86 | 3.35 | 745.64 | < .001 | 0.20 |