Research Article
There is still a question of whether online friendship predicts changes in face-to-face friendship (Reduction Hypothesis) or face-to-face friendship predicts changes in online friendship (Compensation Hypothesis) during adolescence.The purpose of this study was to compare these two hypotheses to determine which comes first: online friendship or offline friendship.Eighty adolescent girls between the ages of 14 and 19 years (mean, 16.07 years; standard deviation, 1.28 years) on a non-traditional
Giulia Zucchetti,
Fabrizia Giannotta,
Emanuela Rabaglietti
Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology , ISSUE 1, 24–32