Understanding the influence of social media on people’s life satisfaction through two competing explanatory mechanisms

Zhan, Liuhan; Sun, Yongqiang; Wang, Nan; Zhang, Xi

doi:10.1108/ajim-12-2015-0195

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“…Facebook has already entrenched into our daily routines and is considered as a tool for maintaining relationships [27]. Further, researchers have highlighted the ability of social media such as Facebook to change the attitudes and judgment about one's life [28]. Moreover, extant literature have provided evidence on how social media can influence the buying behaviors of customers [29].…”

Section: Social Influence In Travel and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, extant literature have provided evidence on how social media can influence the buying behaviors of customers [29]. Further, prior literature on social media and its effects [28,30] argues how social media has a positive and a negative impact on life satisfaction [31,32]. As such, it is evident that social influence through social media has an impact on an individual's satisfaction.…”

Section: Social Influence In Travel and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Likes—The key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experience

Sedera

Lokuge

Atapattu

et al. 2017

Information & Management

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Please cite this article as: D. Sedera, S. Lokuge, M. Atapattu, U. Gretzel, Likesmdashthe key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experience, Information and Management (2017), http://dx.A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 2 Likes-the key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experienceA c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 3 that 52% of travelers changed their original travel plans as a result of comments received through social media [21]. Further, shared information about travel experiences has become an important source that influences the decisions of potential holidaymakers. According to "The Australia.com" Facebook survey, 72% participants used Facebook for seeking "holiday inspirations," and 82% of them were inspired to visit Australia through Facebook.Furthermore, the study found that 70% travelers update their Facebook status while on vacation, seeking acknowledgments from their friends and family [21].The social influence asserted through Facebook before and after the travel provides the context to this study. Herein, it is argued that an individual is subjected to social influence prior to travel when s/he receives feedback through comments or likes 1 of about the travel.This influences the traveler's expectations of the destination, places of travel, time of travel, and/or the mode of travel. Similarly, a traveler's post-travel experience is influenced by the comments s/he receives for their postings such as photographs and status updates made during the travels. As such, this study employs the expectation confirmation theory (ECT) to investigate how social media asserts social influence on the traveler's expectations and postexperience. Following Miller [22], it is argued that each traveler will develop preconsumption expectations and the relationship between expectations (i.e., pre-travel) and confirmation can be moderated by social influence. Similarly, it is logical to argue that their satisfaction (i.e., post-travel) is just as fluid and moderated by social influence.This research is designed to answer the following research questions: "Does social influence moderate the relationship between pre-travel expectations and confirmation?" and "Does social influence moderate the relationship between confirmation and post-travel satisfaction?" The scope of the study provides both researchers and practitioners an opportunity to observe the important role of social influence as a moderator.The two research questions required a longitudinal study to gauge the moderating effect of social influence on (i) the relationship between expectations and confirmation and (ii) the relationship between confirmation and satisfaction in the ECT [23][24][25]. It is noted that most ECT and social influence studies are simply cross-sectional, and the present study is one of the very few studies to recognize the impact of time lag between variables longitudinally using the same respondents before and after a leisure tour. M a n u s c r i p t 30 Darshana SederaDar...

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Section: Social Influence In Travel and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Influence In Travel and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Likes—The key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experience

Sedera

Lokuge

Atapattu

et al. 2017

Information & Management

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“…Hence, using social media may help to improve students' levels of life quality if the university management can develop novel applications that pay close attention to individuals' social and moral support (e.g., mentoring or coaching) (Yoo & Jeong, 2017;Yuan et al, 2018;Afzal, Khan, and Mujtaba, 2018). Social media designers could design more entertaining features to efficiently stimulate users to adapt and meet the needs of social interactions (Zhan et al, 2016;Yuan et al, 2017).…”

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The Relationship Between Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being: the Mediating Role of Internet Marketing

Ahmed¹,

Khan

et al. 2020

MMI

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social capital and psychological well-being through perceived social support testing social media usage as a moderator. This study is based on social capital theory, which is centred on human interaction through social support to amplify the psychological well-being. Data was collected from 368 masters' students belonging to five different campuses. Using partial least squares structural equation modelling the results reveal that perceived social support significantly mediates the link between social capital and psychological well-being, and social media usage heightens the relationship between social capital and saws social support when it is used for a social cause. Findings of the study have some practical implications on how to diagnose and prevent factors that influence the feelings of isolation and loneliness in online interactions. The results are useful for digital media users and managers in higher education distance learning institutions since social interaction might indirectly benefit virtual university students' psychological well-being by increasing the perceived social support followed by social capital. Researchers agree that using social media may help to improve students' levels of life quality if educational administrators can develop novel applications that pay close attention to individuals' social and moral support. As such, social media designers could design more entertaining features to efficiently stimulate students and other users to adapt and meet their needs for social interactions. This research has established that a simple social conversation forum app should be launched by any virtual university to bring their students together where they could feel a sense of belonging and connectedness with a slice of social support. Moreover, teachers should also have a separate informal blog where they could communicate with their students each week to overcome the lack of face-to-face interaction. The administration of virtual universities has to increase the number of face-to-face gathering and seminars, i.e. it should be once in a semester rather than once in the entire study program. It will motivate the students by making references and relations with their peers. By spreading this knowledge, the students may get out of the state of isolation that will improve their performance. By demonstrating this in the higher education sector, virtual universities could reduce the service staff more intelligently through AI, and delay in response time (e.g., communication between student-to-student and student-to-teacher) could also be removed efficiently. Applying this model in virtual university settings could bring local and international students to obtain more significant social support, consequently leading to amplified psychological well-being. Keywords psychological well-being, social capital, internet marketing, social media usage, perceived social support online communities, e-learning, virtual engagement, social ties, online social interaction, loneliness, and isolation.

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“…Even some of these activities are related to individual mental health conditions, such as mood changes, individual motivations and perceptions. High social media usage activities can also trigger individuals experiencing dependence and disruption in everyday life [16]- [18]. This article discusses the effects of using social media for individuals on the well being condition, and then viewed from the gender and domicile.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Wellbeing Effect of Social Media Postings Analysis Using Rasch Models

Ardi¹,

Sukmawati²,

Ifdil³

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multidisciplinary and Applications (WMA) 2018, 24-25 January 2018, Padang

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Social media usage is a highly developed research in the last decade. This media impact is positively related to the marketing process, communication, politics, news and the other latest information. However, the sharing of personal life, feelings or problems will affect the state of mental health (wellbeing). This study examined the effect of social media use to the condition of psychological wellbeing after the activity was performed. The research data was collected using ZSAI inventory (Zadrian Social-Media Addiction Inventory) with the sample consists of 326 people. Data analysis was performed by using Rasch model analysis. The analysis on the research results shows that there is a significant relationship between the usages of social media with the condition of individual subjective well-being. The users feels more comfortable and happy when the content that they shares through social media gets positive responses from others, feeling "empty" if cannot access social media in period of time, the needs to express personal feelings/problems on social media. Nevertheless, the social media users tend to feel addicted and lost productivity by using it.

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Understanding the influence of social media on people’s life satisfaction through two competing explanatory mechanisms

Cited by 82 publications

References 33 publications

Likes—The key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experience

Likes—The key to my happiness: The moderating effect of social influence on travel experience

The Relationship Between Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being: the Mediating Role of Internet Marketing

Wellbeing Effect of Social Media Postings Analysis Using Rasch Models

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