Karen Freberg, M.A. College of Communications and Information University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rebecca Adams, B.S. Department of Psychology California State University, San Diego Karen McGaughey, Ph.D. Statistics Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Laura Freberg, Ph.D. Psychology and Child Development Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Abstract: Interactions between media use and psychological well-being have been described using two major paradigms: a deficiency paradigm that sees individual use of media as a compensation for unsatisfactory face-to-face interactions, and a global use paradigm, in which media use is viewed as universal and therefore parallel to face-to-face behavior ...

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