Encouraging online engagement: The role of interdependent self-construal and social motives in fostering online participation

Moses, Jennifer Filson; Dwyer, Patrick C.; Fuglestad, Paul T.; Kim, John; Maki, Alexander; Snyder, Mark; Terveen, Loren

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.035

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“…Examples of the former include playing golf due to self-interest or having a massage to relax while examples of the latter include involving a donation campaign or giving a free lecture. Because self-centered actions prime an independent self-construal and other-centered actions prime an interdependent self-construal (Moses et al, 2018), future research should examine whether the latter increases the probability of experiencing the FoMO. In doing so, such research could reveal further motives for altruistic actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Why Do People Experience the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO)? Exposing the Link Between the Self and the FoMO Through Self-Construal

Doğan

2019

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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With the advent of social media, it is getting easier to be informed about different aspects of individuals’ lives. Therefore, experiencing fear of missing out (FoMO), which is characterized by the desire to stay continually connected with others, is becoming increasingly widespread among people. The concept of FoMO has drawn considerable attention from researchers; however, past research has yet to expose the link between the self-concept and FoMO. Drawing on the self-construal theory, we argue that the construal of the interdependent self underlies FoMO. In other words, the current article proposes that people with interdependent self-construal are more vulnerable to FoMO. In Study 1, we conducted online survey research with 566 MTurk participants, 287 U.S. participants and 279 Indian participants. In Study 2, we conducted an experiment with two conditions with 188 MTurk participants residing in the United States. The findings from the two studies provide consistent and convergent findings that FoMO is positively associated with interdependent self-construal. Implications are discussed and further research suggestions are provided.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Why Do People Experience the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO)? Exposing the Link Between the Self and the FoMO Through Self-Construal

Doğan

2019

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…De este estudio se pueden derivar recomendaciones prácticas para ciberpáginas de apoyo entre iguales. La investigación previa sobre ciberpáginas de apoyo en línea ha señalado la necesidad de ajustar el diseño de la interfaz para que se ajuste a las expectativas de los usuarios y se consiga el mayor beneficio posible (Li et al, 2015;Moses et al, 2018;Sun et al, 2014). En este estudio se muestra que los usuarios frecuentes (quienes publican, los lectores, y los entrevistados) necesitan conectar con otros en situación similar para obtener apoyo emocional.…”

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Coping with distress among adolescents: Effectiveness of personal narratives on support websites

Mariën¹,

Vandebosch²,

Pabian³

et al. 2021

Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal

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Sharing, reading and responding to personal narratives on peer-to-peer support websites may provide adolescents with informational and emotional support to feel more confident in coping with stressful events. However, their use may also pose a threat to adolescents’ coping self-efficacy. Principles of expressive writing, social sharing of emotions, narrative persuasion and self-effects may provide insight in how these actions may both positively and negatively relate to coping self-efficacy. By using a cross-sectional online survey with 311 Dutch-speaking adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18, this article explores how these actions and social support motives (i.e. information-seeking and emotional support-seeking) are related to adolescents’ perceptions about the usefulness of these websites to their coping self-efficacy. The results showed a positive relation between adolescents’ social support motives and their belief in the usefulness of these websites to their coping self-efficacy. Therefore, we conclude that it may be an effective coping strategy for many adolescents. There was a negative relation between experience with sharing a personal narrative and coping self-efficacy, meaning that these users did not perceive the website to be helpful to their overall confidence in coping with stressful events. However, this negative relation was reversed when they were motivated to find emotional support with similar others. Compartir, leer y responder a narraciones personales en webs de apoyo entre iguales puede tanto fortalecer como amenazar la confianza de los adolescentes para hacer frente a los acontecimientos estresantes (es decir, la autoeficacia como estrategia de afrontamiento). Los principios de la escritura expresiva, el intercambio social de emociones, la persuasión narrativa y los efectos en uno mismo pueden proporcionar información sobre la forma en que esas acciones pueden relacionarse con la autoeficacia como estrategia de afrontamiento. Mediante una encuesta transversal en línea con 311 adolescentes de habla holandesa de entre 14 y 18 años, este artículo explora cómo estas acciones y los motivos del apoyo social (es decir, la búsqueda de información y la búsqueda de apoyo emocional) se relacionan con la autoeficacia de los adolescentes como estrategia de afrontamiento tras usar la web de apoyo entre iguales. Los resultados muestran que la experiencia de los usuarios al leer y responder a narraciones personales no estaba relacionada con su autoeficacia de afrontamiento. Sin embargo, se encontró una relación negativa entre la experiencia de compartir una narración personal y la autoeficacia, por lo que los usuarios no percibieron que el sitio web fuera útil para su confianza general a la hora de hacer frente a acontecimientos estresantes. No obstante, esta relación negativa se invirtió cuando también tenían el objetivo de encontrar apoyo emocional con sus iguales.

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“…From the above formalization based on the link between human inside and outside divisions, we demonstrate the inclusion relationship between IDP-SC and ITD-SC or the possibility of conversion from IDP-SC to ITD-SC. Actually, every individual has two types of self [35,36] which are tied closely by the networking technology in the virtual brand community which in turn can utilize the difference of the different types of users in term of individuals' cognition, motivation, and emotion and then stimulate certain social behaviors [37][38][39][40][41].…”

Section: Self-construal Theory and Self-determination Theorymentioning

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Inter-Edge and Cloud conversion accelerated user-generated content for virtual brand community

Song

Duan

Huang

et al. 2020

J Wireless Com Network

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Web-based enterprises have increasingly begun to build their own virtual brand community on the Cloud. How to encourage Web users to generate Web content in the Web community continuously and permanently has become the focal point. However, few studies have explored that how to drive the motivation of user-generated content (UGC) named self-enhancement (SE) internalized from the perspective of user's personal characteristics and then enhance the intention of UGC. Even fewer studies have been devoted to drive the motivation of UGC from the perspective of information technology. Based on self-construal (SC) theory, self-determination (SD) theory, and current immersive applications of Edge computing, we proposed to a solution of user-generated content motivation internalized in the virtual brand community implemented through the manipulation of the tradeoff of inter-Edge and Cloud processing. Our survey shows that different types of self-construal (SC) users have different levels of internal motivation for self-enhancement (SE) accomplished through the organization of user characteristics. We build a detailed simulation of the change of time delay, availability, and cost of inter-Edge and Cloud conversion to demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed mechanism of UGC motivation internalized in the virtual brand community in guiding enhancing the intention of UGC in the community in practice.

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Encouraging online engagement: The role of interdependent self-construal and social motives in fostering online participation

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

Why Do People Experience the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO)? Exposing the Link Between the Self and the FoMO Through Self-Construal

Why Do People Experience the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO)? Exposing the Link Between the Self and the FoMO Through Self-Construal

Coping with distress among adolescents: Effectiveness of personal narratives on support websites

Inter-Edge and Cloud conversion accelerated user-generated content for virtual brand community

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