SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its
SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its link to the InternetBack in 1998, Robert Kraut, a professor of social psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, released a study, HomeNet, that found the Net was dangerous to one's social and psychological well-being... Now, Kraut and colleagues are back with another report, Internet Paradox Revisited, due to be published next spring in the Journal of Social Issues. In re-interviewing the subjects of the first study, the researchers found depression significantly declined with Internet use and social isolation was not associated with high Internet use.
- Journal of Online Behavior: Reformulating the Internet Paradox: Social Cognitive Explanations of Internet Use and Depression
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