Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between students’ use of social media, their academic performance and creativity in the digital era. Design/methodology/approach This research used a survey strategy for collecting primary data required for this study from 334 students of undergraduate programs at Chinese universities who were sampled through a non-probability convenience approach. Findings The findings of the study reveal that students’ use of social media is positively associated with students’ academic performance and creativity. In addition, intrinsic motivation was found to be a mediating reason in the relationships between students’ use of social media and students’ academic performance and creativity. Originality/value This study explored an important role of intrinsic motivation as a mediator in the relationships between students’ use of social media and their positive outcomes. Studying the use of social media by students to their positive study outcomes is also practically important for students, educationalists and other policymakers.

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The aim of this paper was to investigate the link between fear of Covid-19 and individuals' behavioral intentions toward adopting e-health services by expanding the technology acceptance model (TAM) to incorporate fear of the Covid-19 factor. To empirically testing our proposed theoretical model, we conducted a research survey in Pakistan and collected data from 624 individuals utilizing a non-probability convenience sampling strategy. The outcomes of our study declare that fear of Covid-19 are positively associated with individuals' attitude and their subsequent behavioral intentions towards adopting e-health services. Perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of e-health services mediated the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and individuals' attitude towards adopting e-health services. This research is highly significant in the current scenario of Covid-19. Our study offers a theoretical model to understand why and how fear of Covid-19 is related to an individual's intentions for adopting e-health services. Moreover, this study also extends the literature of the technology acceptance model TAM by pinpoint the impact of fear of Covid-19. Contribution/Originality:This study investigates the link between fear of Covid-19 and individuals' behavioral intentions toward adopting e-health services by expanding the technology acceptance model (TAM) to incorporate fear of the Covid-19 factor. INTRODUCTIONThe world is now battling the Covid-19 infectious disease that has been announced a global high-risk epidemic by the World Health Organization (aka. WHO) (Dalglish, 2020). A new kind of Corona virus initially called novel Corona virus pneumonia (NCP), and subsequently renamed the new Corona Virus in 2019 (2019-nCoV or Covid-19) has badly affected the world. It is the seventh corona virus known to be spread among humans . On December 31, 2019, clusters of cases of Corona virus were formally recorded from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China (Amir, 2020). Since its first outburst in Wuhan, a highly contagious disease, the Corona virus has spread to all parts of the world. To date, the Corona virus (Covid-19) has been confirmed in 198 countries (Iriani & Andjarwati, 2020). Due to the dramatic rise in the number of cases out of doors China, on March 11, 2020, the