Exploring the buffer effect of receiving social support on lonely and emotionally unstable social networking users
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Highlights：
• Receiving social support online in general helps ease social networking exhaustion.
• Neurotic users receive more social support online than others.
• Receiving social support does not reduce exhaustion for neurotic users.
• Social networking use is a greater source of stress for lonely and neurotic users.
• Lonely users experience higher social overload, higher social networking exhaustion.
摘要
•Receiving social support online in general helps ease social networking exhaustion.•Neurotic users receive more social support online than others.•Receiving social support does not reduce exhaustion for neurotic users.•Social networking use is a greater source of stress for lonely and neurotic users.•Lonely users experience higher social overload, higher social networking exhaustion.
论文关键词：Buffer effect theory,Receiving social support,Loneliness,Emotionally unstable,Social overload,Disconnecting social media
论文评审过程：Received 11 June 2018, Revised 24 August 2018, Accepted 28 August 2018, Available online 31 August 2018, Version of Record 5 September 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.08.052
