Social Media Use and Empathy: A Mini Meta-Analysis - Social Networking

SN > Vol.8 No.4, October 2019

Social Networking

Volume 8, Issue 4 (October 2019)

ISSN Print: 2169-3285 ISSN Online: 2169-3323

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Social Media Use and Empathy: A Mini Meta-Analysis ()

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DOI: 10.4236/sn.2019.84010 1,891 Downloads 10,236 Views Citations

Author(s)

Shu-Sha Angie Guan¹, Sophia Hain², Jennifer Cabrera³, Andrea Rodarte¹

Affiliation(s)

¹California State University, Northridge, USA.
²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
³University of California, Irvine, USA.

ABSTRACT

Concerns about the effects of social media or social networking site (SNS) use on prosocial development are increasing. The aim of the current study is to meta-analytically summarize the research to date (k = 5) about the relationship between general SNS use and two components of empathy (i.e., empathic concern and perspective-taking). Random effects meta-analyses showed that SNS use was significantly and positively related to affective empathy though only marginally related to cognitive empathy. These effects were generally small in size and do not establish causality. Future research should explore how specific behaviors are related to different forms of empathy.

KEYWORDS

Social Media, Empathic Concern, Perspective-Taking

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Guan, S. , Hain, S. , Cabrera, J. and Rodarte, A. (2019) Social Media Use and Empathy: A Mini Meta-Analysis. Social Networking, 8, 147-157. doi: 10.4236/sn.2019.84010.

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