Examining the Role of Social Networking Fatigue toward Discontinuance Intention: The Multigroup Effects of Gender and Age

Adhikari, Kishalay; Panda, Rajeev Kumar

doi:10.1080/15332861.2019.1698265

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“…However, social media helpfulness was not found to positively impact fatigue as suggested by Bright et al [5] in their findings, where it was found that social media helpfulness was positively related to fatigue. It conforms to the results of Adhikari and Panda [37], who found that the lower the perceived helpfulness of social media, the higher will be the social media fatigue, though our results were not significant to accept the hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…We found fatigue to significantly impact the discontinuous intention, which is confirmed by past literature [6,13,37,50]. These studies confirmed that social media fatigue creates a response in the user, which is discontinuation.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Social web users prefer to self-disclose more personal and confidential details as their peers and colleagues use them [36]. As a result, users continue to feel anxious and confused about privacy due to a plethora of data on social media sites [37]. Reviewing the literature, we arrive at the following hypotheses: H7.…”

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confidence: 97%

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“… 76 In terms of SMF, there are gender differences 85 , 86 which suggest that women tend to experience fatigue more than men. 87 There is also some evidence that there is a stronger effect of social media usefulness and SMF for young people between 28−37 years old compared to the other age groups. 87 SMF is related to the time spent on social media.…”

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Problematic Smartphone Use and Social Media Fatigue: The Mediating Role of Self-Control

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Background Excessive social media consumption leads to addiction and affects mental health. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to avoid. Previous research on the effects of excessive Internet use shows that people who engage in social media (SM) without restraint experience over-involvement, over-disclosure, technostress, and social media fatigue (SMF). SMF, conceptualized as an emotional and cognitive feeling of being overwhelmed, manifests itself in mindless browsing of content, limiting the amount of time spent on SM, or quitting SM altogether. Self-control, although present in the technology addiction literature and psychology research, has been rarely described in relation to both excessive SM use and SMF. Therefore, the main goal of the present study was to verify whether there is a direct relationship between problematic smartphone use and SMF, and whether this association is mediated by self-control. Methods The study included 210 respondents ( M = 25.85, SD = 9.84) living in different Polish cities. The survey was conducted online, and the respondents consented to participate in the study. They completed the following measures: the Mobile Phone Problematic Use, the Self-Control Scale, the Social Media Fatigue Scale, and a brief questionnaire with socio-demographic data. Results Statistical analysis was performed to verify the relationship between problematic mobile phone use, level of self-control, and SMF. The outcomes indicate that there are significant interrelationships between the three studied variables. The association between problematic smartphone use and SMF is mediated by self-control. Conclusion A lack of impulse-inhibition skills, such as compulsive checking of notifications, can be a significant factor in SM exhaustion, fatigue, or frustration. SMF can also be understood as a natural defensive response, triggered in situations where individuals are overwhelmed, when the self-control is insufficient to stop the compulsion to use SM, and the use of a smartphone for this purpose is excessively engaging.

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“…However, news overload has been recently investigated in the discipline of communication ( Song et al, 2017 ). Furthermore, in the context of social media, news overload has made people utilize their energy and cognitive abilities because social media provides too much information to its users, hence making them exhausted and stressed out ( Adhikari and Panda, 2019 ). A huge amount of information on social media tends to cross the cognitive limits of the users while evaluating and analyzing the news; therefore, the users feel overloaded and overwhelmed ( Schmitt et al, 2017 ).…”

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Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy

Tian

2022

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In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal and organizational objectives. The present study has undertaken an inquiry to investigate the impact of social media news overload on news avoidance and news filtering with the mediating and moderating mechanisms of the need for news and media literacy, respectively. For this purpose, data were obtained from 358 Chinese social media users through the aid of survey forms. The data obtained were then analyzed through Smart-PLS software. The statistical technique used for analysis is structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the validity of the proposed hypotheses. The results of the study indicated that social media news overload has a significant effect on news avoidance, the need for news, and news filtering behavior. It was also observed that the need for news had a significant impact on news avoidance. In addition to this, it was also revealed that the need for news significantly mediated the relationship between social media news overload and news avoidance; however, it did not mediate the relationship between social media news overload and news filtering. Lastly, it was identified that media literacy significantly moderated the relationship between the need for news and news avoidance and it did not moderate the relationship between the need for news and news filtering behavior. This study has made important theoretical contributions by advancing the current literature in terms of the empirical evidence that indicates a significant relationship between social media news overload, news avoidance, and news filtering. Practically, this study contributed by emphasizing the need to encourage and train people to use strategies to seek relevant news in a vast repository of information available through information technology.

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Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy

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