Understanding the buffering effect of social media use on anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown
Abstract During the COVID-19 outbreak, lockdown measures have been deployed worldwide. In the wake of these measures, internet and social media use has reached unprecedented peaks. We hypothesize that social media can, in the context of the pandemic, be a placeholder for collective resilient process...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00724-x |