Table 3.
Correlations between Social Networking Sites (SNSs) usage frequency and measures of loneliness and social engagement.
| SNSs Usage Frequency | Loneliness | Social Engagement | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA Lack of Companionship | UCLA Left Out |
UCLA Isolated | LSNS-6 Total |
LSNS-6 Family | LSNS-6 Friend | ||
| WhatsApp usage frequency N = 58 |
ρs | −0.257 | −0.051 | −0.018 | 0.021 | 0.024 | 0.009 |
| p | 0.051 | 0.706 | 0.895 | 0.875 | 0.858 | 0.948 | |
| Facebook usage frequency N = 26 |
ρs | 0.286 | −0.125 | 0.102 | 0.275 | 0.229 | 0.227 |
| p | 0.157 | 0.544 | 0.619 | 0.174 | 0.260 | 0.264 | |
ρs—Spearman’s correlation coefficient. p values denote significance at Spearman’s rank-order correlation.