@article{Dias_Garcia del Castillo_Garcia del Castillo-López_2017, title={Predictors of Facebook use among Portuguese adolescents: Contributes of an exploratory study}, volume={31}, url={https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/actualidades/article/view/27450}, DOI={10.15517/ap.v31i123.27450}, abstractNote={<p>The widespread use of social networks has brought opportunities and constraints at the same time, even<br />faster than research and knowledge on this topic. In this paper, we intend to explore the role of personal and psychosocial variables in Facebook use, considering a set of self-report questionnaires to a sample of 386 Portuguese adolescents. We found gender differences in social network use, a positive relationship with age, self-regulation and self-esteem, with peer interaction with offline contacts as the strongest predictor for social network use. These data suggest the role of this application as a mean to maintain contact with peers.</p>}, number={123}, journal={Actualidades en Psicología}, author={Dias, Paulo César and Garcia del Castillo, José António and Garcia del Castillo-López, Álvaro}, year={2017}, month={Nov.}, pages={31–42} }