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This paper’s main objective is to show relations between interest in media, perceived social support and adolescents’ personal well-being. For this purpose, 1,589 Brazilian adolescents answered a questionnaire containing Cummins’ Personal Well-Being, Vaux’s Social Support Appraisals and Casas’ interest in media scales. The media in study are: The Internet, computer games, video games, computer, cell phone and television. For the data analysis this research used Structural Equation Modeling, a statistical methodology based on the confirmation of hypotheses previously established by theoretical frameworks on data. A final model of relations between media, support and well-being was obtained with a fit considered satisfactory by the literature. Implications of media on adolescents’ well-being based on this model are considered.
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Acknowledgments to our research team: Tamíris Kreibich da Silva, Ângela Paradiso, Eveline Fávero, Patricia Fiúza, Tiago Calza, Gabriela Howes, Fabiane Schutz, Carla Mello and Maíne Prates.
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Sarriera, J.C., Abs, D., Casas, F. et al. Relations Between Media, Perceived Social Support and Personal Well-Being in Adolescence. Soc Indic Res 106, 545–561 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9821-x
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