Social Media Use and Empathy: A Mini Meta-Analysis

• 作者: Andrea Rodarte Jennifer Cabrera Shu-Sha Angie Guan Sophia Hain
• 来源期刊: 社交网络(英文)
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: SOCIAL MEDIA Empathic CONCERN Perspective-Taking
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 147-157
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: F49

摘要

Concerns about the effects of social media or social networking site (SNS) use on prosocial development are increasing. The aim of the current study is to meta-analytically summarize the research to date (k = 5) about the relationship between general SNS use and two components of empathy (i.e., empathic concern and perspective-taking). Random effects meta-analyses showed that SNS use was significantly and positively related to affective empathy though only marginally related to cognitive empathy. These effects were generally small in size and do not establish causality. Future research should explore how specific behaviors are related to different forms of empathy.