Testing the Stimulation Versus the Displacement Hypothesis

Patti M. Valkenburg
Jochen Peter
The Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
University of Amsterdam

Abstract
The aim of this study was to contrast the validity of two opposing explanatory hypotheses about the effect of online communication on adolescents’ well-being. The displacement hypothesis predicts that online communication reduces adolescents’ well-being because it displaces [...]