When facebook and finals collide - procrastinatory social media usage predicts enhanced anxiety☆

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Highlights：

• Does Procrastinatory Facebook Usage (PFU) instead of studying enhance anxiety?

• Two studies offer ecological and causal support for an influence of PFU on anxiety.

• Higher PFU longitudinally predicted higher anxiety during exam studying period.

• Experimentally manipulated PFU in a lab exam context causally increased anxiety.

• These studies illuminate when Facebook usage is maladaptive.

摘要

•Does Procrastinatory Facebook Usage (PFU) instead of studying enhance anxiety?•Two studies offer ecological and causal support for an influence of PFU on anxiety.•Higher PFU longitudinally predicted higher anxiety during exam studying period.•Experimentally manipulated PFU in a lab exam context causally increased anxiety.•These studies illuminate when Facebook usage is maladaptive.

论文关键词：Social networks,Anxiety,Self-control,Procrastination,Facebook

论文评审过程：Received 25 July 2019, Revised 14 February 2020, Accepted 25 March 2020, Available online 30 March 2020, Version of Record 2 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106358