¶ … Kalpidou Costin and Morris (2011) use standard social-science methodology to correlate Facebook use among college students with measures of self-esteem and adaptation to college life. Facebook use was measured according to a survey devised by Kalpidou Costin and Morris, rating emotional and social connection to Facebook, but also according to the number of hours spent on the website, and the number of "friends" on the site. The survey population deliberately included a mix of first-year college students and upper-class students, on the basis that the latter would have an "established social network" already (184). They found that a larger number of Facebook friends was related to poor academic adjustment in college, but worse for the first-year students. The academic adjustment also correlated with poor emotional adjustment, suggesting that "Facebook use, like Internet use, does not fulfill emotional needs" (187). They also discovered that the amount of time spent on Facebook does not correlate with...
Yet among the older students, better social adjustment scores were associated with a larger number of Facebook friends -- suggesting, in the words of Kalpidou Costin and Morris, that "upper-class students use Facebook more effectively than first-year students do." This would be a matter of the first-year students using Facebook to compensate for the stress of adjusting to a new environment (and finding that Facebook does not offer much emotional assistance) while the older students are using Facebook to bolster the experience of an "established social network" in real life. This seems to support their additional finding that the older student group also reported greater "attachment to the institution" (188). Part of the older students' more effective use of Facebook consists of more effectively strengthening online the social connections that existed in real life.
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Occupational Stress and Scientific MonitoringBYElena Georgiou�This paper was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Doctoral Program (PhD) in Business Administration at the University of Nicosia, School of Business Administration, Nicosia, Cyprus, (December/2017)�University of Nicosia46 Makedonitissas Ave.P.O. Box 240051700 NicosiaCyprusDate: (December/2017)Table Contents1.Introduction��������������������������........32. Research Aims��������������������������3-43. Research Objectives������������������������..54. Research Questions�������������������������55. Literature Review������������������������...5-65.1 Types of Stress�������������������������.6-75.2 Definition of Supervision����������������������75.3 Categories of Supervisory Models������������������..75.4 The
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