One caveat to findings of greater social connectedness and a sense of well-being among adolescents who engage in these kinds of online communication is that
a. adolescents who report strong social connections in school tend to avoid instant messenger use at home.
b. among adolescents who report feelings of loneliness, instant messenger use tends to decline.
c. using electronic social technologies is never a practice implemented to enhance a sense of well-being.
d. when online communications focus more on establishing contacts or talking with new people rather than friends, these positive benefits are no longer found.
B
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A. narrative B. instrument C. analogic D. anaphoric
The term variable may best be defined as a
a. property of an event that can assume any of a range of values b. label assigned to an observation c. single number that allows one to summarize, analyze, or evaluate a group of observations d. numerical value assigned to an observation
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a. enterprising b. investigative c. conventional d. realistic
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a. redundancy b. monism c. atomism d. elementalism