The Impact of Facebookers’ Posts on Other Users’ Attitudes According to Their Age and Gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology

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Abstract:This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that negative Facebook posts might evoke in Facebookers. Thus, a mixed-methods approach was adopted employing both a five-point agreement Likert scale questionnaire and semi-structured interviews which were conducted with 40 participants. Based on the participants' responses, the results show that many Facebookers write posts to satisfy different needs including receiving compliments and attention, sharing daily updates, showing off, and deliberately teasing others, all of which have been found to trigger feelings of jealousy, hatred, annoyance, demotivation, inferiority, and sadness. The study concludes with recommendations for further research.

Jealousy due to social media? A systematic literature review and framework of social media-induced jealousy

“…Consequently, it can be argued that social media can have a dual effect on relational maintenance and quality by influencing an individual's experience with jealousy. In the context of Facebook, Altakhaineh and Alnamer (2018) explained that such platforms can help users maintain continual connections with close as well as distant relationships but also have Jealousy due to social media?…”

“…Additionally, such an impact may differ in its emergent form due to gender (Demirtaş-Madran, 2018), personality (Seidman, 2019) and even cross-cultural differences (Iqbal and Jami, 2017; Zandbergen and Brown, 2015). This contradictory nature of the possible impact of Facebook on social relationships has been referred to as the “Facebook paradox” (Altakhaineh and Alnamer, 2018). Due to the evidentiary link between SoMJ and the posited adverse effects on marriages (Starks, 2019) and romantic relationships – for example, through intimate partner violence (Brem et al , 2015) – we argue for an urgent need to better understand the association between social media use and jealousy.…”

“…Consequently, it can be argued that social media can have a dual effect on relational maintenance and quality by influencing an individual's experience with jealousy. In the context of Facebook, Altakhaineh and Alnamer (2018) explained that such platforms can help users maintain continual connections with close as well as distant relationships but also have the capacity to evoke suspicion and jealousy in romantic relationships. Additionally, such an impact may differ in its emergent form due to gender (Demirtaş-Madran, 2018), personality (Seidman, 2019) and even cross-cultural differences (Iqbal and Jami, 2017; Zandbergen and Brown, 2015).…”

The Effect of Gender on the Perception of Pre-Service Teachers towards their Instructors and Students

“…Therefore, such data are more reliable, effective, valid, and clear (cf. Altakhaineh and Alnamer, 2018). For these reasons, the current study employed face-to-face interviews to attain more insight into the challenges that pre-service teachers face during their practicum.…”

Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching Gifted and Talented Learners in General Education Classrooms in the UAE

“…The survey used a 5-point Likert-type scale for every item, to indicate agreement or disagreement with the statement, from 1=strongly disagree and 5=strongly agree (cf. Altakhaineh & Alnamer, 2018); • An open-ended question about facilitators and challenges in teaching gifted and talented students in participant schools (cf. Holloway & Wheeler, 2010), to allow participants to express any other ideas not covered by the items.…”