We operationalized social wellbeing as college students self assessment scores for social integration, social acceptance, social contribution, social actualization, social coherence, and social comparison. We operationalized academic performance as students last semesters GPA as well their average prelim scores of the semester and their estimated weekly study hours. **Behavior:** For social wellbeing we will be using a 50 point questionnaire used in a previous study (Corey, K (1998)) as well as a 6 question survey to evaluate social comparison (Davadi, S. et al (2017)). For academic performance we will simply be asking directly for GPA of the most recent semester and average pre-lim grades of the current semester as well as estimated weekly study hours. **Scale:** Social wellbeing will be measured on an interval scale because there are negative and positive values that can be put down in the questions. Academic performance will be measured on a ratio scale as there are no numbers below zero. **References:** Corey, K (1998). Social Psychology Quarterly Vol. 61 Davadi, S. et al (2017). Home Alone: Why People Believe Others’ Social Lives Are Richer Than Their Own. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,* 113, No. 6, 858 – 877 doi: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29 I used PsychINFO to find references and the search term Academic Performance, social wellbeing, and college students. Hypothesis **Greater negative displacement between perceived social activity compared to other college students the lower the academic performance of the college student.** ### Operational definitions In this study they operationalized social wellbeing by adding up survey results from questions on the topics of social integration, social acceptance, social contribution, social actualization, and social coherence. [^5] In this study they operationalized social life as self-assessment scores on a scale in comparison to other students. Here were the results: ![[Pasted image 20220926125326.png]] They showed that the lower people rated their social life activity in comparison to others the more negatively correlated it was with peoples well being. [^4] This study defined social wellbeing as it relates to social networking sites. They define social networking sites as: “a social aggregation that emerges from the Internet when sufficient numbers of individuals continue a public discussion for a certain amount of time, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs or connections of personal relationships in cyberspace”. To operationalize academic performance they used the final grades of the students.[^1] [^1]: Samad, S., Nilashi, M. & Ibrahim, O. The impact of social networking sites on students’ social wellbeing and academic performance. _Educ Inf Technol_ **24**, 2081–2094 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-09867-6 This study used various metrics of social presence which they defined as students ability to engage with an online learning community. They used metrics such as affective expression, self-disclosure, use of humour, continuing a thread, quoting from others’ messages, referring explicitly to others’ messages, asking questions, complimenting, expressing appreciation, expressing agreement, vocatives, addresses or refers to the group using inclusive pronouns, and phatics, salutations and analyzed which of these metrics of social presence was correlated with higher academic performance they operationalized as final grades.[^2] [^2]: Joksimović, S., Gašević, D., Kovanović, V., Riecke, B. E., and Hatala, M. (2015) Social presence in online discussions as a process predictor of academic performance. _Journal of Computer Assisted Learning_, 31: 638– 654. doi: [10.1111/jcal.12107](https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12107 "Link to external resource: 10.1111/jcal.12107"). This study operationalized social wellbeing with answers from a test where students reported on their peer and maternal relationship quality.[^3] [^3]: Hachem, Z. A., & Toro, R. I. (2022). Ethnic identity commitment and socioemotional well-being among Latinx-origin college students: The influence of maternal and peer relationships. _Journal of Social & Personal Relationships_, _39_(4), 931–952. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211052057 [^4]: Davadi, S. et al (2017). Home Alone: Why People Believe Others’ Social Lives Are Richer Than Their Own. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,* 113, No. 6, 858 – 877 doi: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29189037/ [^5]: Corey, K (1998). Social Psychology Quarterly Vol. 61