Loneliness and Social Media Use among Religious Latter-Day Saint College Students: an Exploratory Study

As a potent psychosocial stressor, loneliness is associated with numerous mental and physical health complaints. The recent rise in social media use has presented opportunity for more frequent social interactions to occur with larger social networks than ever before. Somewhat paradoxically, many studies have found that increased use of social media is associated with and, may lead to, increases in loneliness and associated deleterious outcomes....