Student Research Guide WQ24/ Online Dating Apps

• Scholarly: “About Mental Health.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Apr. 2023, www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm 

I really like this source from the CDC because it provides very reliable information of articles and journals. It also gives great descriptions of definitions especially in regards to mental health. 

• Streaming Video: “A Brief History of Online Dating.” Bloomberg.Com, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2019, www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-03-13/a-brief-history-of-online-dating-video.

I picked this source from Professor Libby who suggested that I view this source to help construct my introduction paragraph. It shows a short couple minute video about the history of online dating. It also has a lot of information about one specific dating app called Match.com. 

• Substantive: Anderson, Monica. “The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech, Pew Research Center, 6 Feb. 2020, www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-and-downsides-of-online-dating/.

I chose this source for my research paper because it's a great article that provides great graphs and statistics to include in my writing. It also was one that I was able to use multiple times especially, in my introduction and in a body paragraph which was about the negative effects of online dating. 

• Scholarly: Castro, Ángel, and Juan Ramón Barrada. “Dating Apps and Their Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Correlates: A Systematic Review.” International journal of environmental research and public health vol. 17,18 6500. 7 Sep. 2020, doi:10.3390/ijerph17186500

I found this source useful because it reviews the history of dating apps and it shows how far it has gotten. I used many quotes from this source for my research paper. It has a lot on content from specific apps such as Tinder. 

• Scholarly: Gibson AF. Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on mobile dating: Critical avenues for research. Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2021 Nov;15

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8646397/ 

I chose to use this source because it gave me a lot of information about the online dating world around the COVID-19 Pandemic. Also, this study encapsulates statistics in reference to mental health. 

• TedTalk: Glanville, Bella. “The Science of Online Dating.” Bella Glanville: The Science of Online Dating | TED Talk, www.ted.com/talks/bella_glanville_the_science_of_online_dating. Accessed 23 Feb. 2024.

This TedTalk is a short video that Glanville, talks about online dating in today's time and its psychological studies that have been experimented. I chose this video for my guide because I think that it's great information around the topic of how online dating applications work. 

• Scholarly: Holtzhausen N, Fitzgerald K, Thakur I, Ashley J, Rolfe M, Pit SW. Swipe-based dating applications use and its association with mental health outcomes: a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychol. 2020 Mar 4;8(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s40359-020-0373-1. PMID: 32127048; PMCID: PMC7055053.

This specific source stuck out to me for my research paper because it really describes how online dating platforms work. For most apps you have to swipe either left or right in order to match with someone. This article talks about an experiment that was done and further explains how this works on the dating apps of Tinder and Bumble. 

• ProQuest Database: Huang, Tzu-Fu, et al. "Adolescent Use of Dating Applications and the Associations with Online Victimization and Psychological Distress." Behavioral Sciences, vol. 13, no. 11, 2023, pp. 903. ProQuest,

https://skagit.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/adolescent-use-dating-applications-associations/docview/2892952635/se-2, 

I really liked this source and was able to use multiple quotes throughout my whole paper. It provided me with a lot of information more on the mental health side. It also included numerical data of younger people who have personally experienced cyber-victimization. 

• ProQuest Database: Marshall, Nikki D., et al. "“It’s Gone from More of Convenience to Necessity at this Point.” "Exploring Online Dating use in the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Thematic Analysis." Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 10, 2023, pp. 567. ProQuest, https://skagit.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/s-gone-more-convenience-necessity-at-this-point/docview/2882798061/se-2

I chose this source for my essay because I thought that it had useful information about the Coronavirus Pandemic. It had very important negative effects of online dating apps that I entered in statistics about peoples mental health through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• Credo: Schwartz, Pepper. “Online Dating.” The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, edited by Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, 1st ed., Wiley, 2015. Credo Reference, Accessed 22 Jan. 2024, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6NDI4OTg3MA==?aid=102912

I liked this source a lot because it gave me information about the history and back ground of online dating. It was also a great find because it came from an International Encyclopedia. 

• Substantive: Vogels, Emily A. “Key Findings about Online Dating in the U.S.” Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2 Feb. 2023, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s.

I chose this article from Pew Research Center because of quality information it holds. This source not only was written information but has various different graphs and tables shown. I liked that it also showed women and men but also had a lot of statistics about different applications. 

 

1. " Online Dating"  AND " Young Adults"
2. "Dating" AND "Online"
3. "Online Dating"
4. "Dating Apps / Sites"
5. "Online Dating" AND "Mental Health"