scholarly journals Social network sites and acculturation of international sojourners in the Netherlands: The mediating role of psychological alienation and online social support

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joep Hofhuis ◽  
Katja Hanke ◽  
Tessa Rutten
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Network ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Mediating Role

From Faux-Social to Pro-Social: The Mediating Role of Copresence in Developing Expectations of Social Support in a Game

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghee Yvette Wohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Instrumental Support ◽  
Network Games ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Simple Action

Social network games—games that incorporate network data from social network sites—heavily rely on helping behavior between players as a central mechanism of play. Does this “faux social” behavior still generate expectations of social support among players? An experiment (N = 88) was conducted to examine the effect of helping on copresence and perceived social support between strangers playing the Facebook game Cityville. Three types of social support were examined: instrumental support within the game, instrumental support outside of the game, and emotional support. Findings indicate that the simple action of being helped in a game generates copresence, the feeling of proximity in a virtual environment. Copresence was a positive predictor of all three types of perceived social support but had highest explanatory power for instrumental support within the game.

scholarly journals Impacts of online social support and perceived value in influential travel blogs

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
Lucy Wangara Kirogo ◽  
Gesage Bichage ◽  
Irungu Irene
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Behavior Intention ◽  
Perceived Values ◽  
Indirect Relationship

As a result of exponential growth in the popularity of blogging, travel blogs have demonstrated their enormous marketing potential, and have become an increasingly important mechanism for exchanging information among tourists. The present study modeled online social support and perceived value as antecedents of the impacts of influential travel bloggers on their blog members’ travel-related behavioral intentions and examined the mediating role of sense of virtual community (SOVC) among these relationships. The analysis results herein demonstrate that online social support, perceived value, and SOVC relate significantly to blog members’ behavior intention. Furthermore, the influence of perceived value and SOVC on behavior intention are both respectively significant. With SOVC as a mediating variable, the CI indirect effect of the perceived value on travel intention did not include 0, indicating an indirect relationship between these two variables. Referring to perceived values, the findings indicate that blog members perceive the influential travel blogs as offering epistemic value more than others. These findings have theoretical implications for social media and online interaction-related literature and have critical business implications for customer-to-customer (C2C) marketers to distinguish themselves within the expanding number of influential travel blogs.

scholarly journals Social Network Types and Health among Older Adults in Rural China: The Mediating Role of Social Support

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Ye ◽  
Xinping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Self Rated Health

This study aimed to identify social network types among older adults in rural China, to explore the relationship between social network types and the health of the older adults, and further, to examine the mediating role of social support in this relationship. A cross-sectional survey method was employed to investigate the health of adults aged 60 or older in rural areas of Hubei Province from 5 September 2018 to 15 October 2018; 405 samples were obtained. First, using k-means clustering analysis, we found five robust network types: diverse, restricted, family, friends and a specific type—family-restricted. Second, the results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that social network types were significantly associated with depressive symptoms and self-rated health in older adults. Older people with diverse friend networks were significantly associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, whereas those with restricted and family-restricted networks were significantly associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of self-rated health. Finally, the results of multiple linear regression analysis confirmed that social support partially mediated the association of the identified social network types with depressive symptoms and self-rated health. Enriching the social network relationships of older adults and providing them with more social support should be conducive to promoting their mental and physical health.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Use of Social Network Sites, Online Social Support, and Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Utz ◽  
Johannes Breuer
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Using Data

Abstract. Existing work on the effects of social network sites (SNS) on well-being has often stressed that SNS can help people gain social support from their online networks, which positively affects their well-being. However, the majority of studies in this area have been cross-sectional in nature and/or relied on student samples. Using data from six waves of a longitudinal study with a representative sample of Dutch Internet users, we first examined whether users and nonusers of SNS differ in online social support and well-being (as indicated by life satisfaction and stress). In a second step, we investigated in more detail how SNS use – more specifically, asking for advice and the number of strong ties on these SNS – are related to online social support, stress, and satisfaction with life. Overall, our results provide no evidence for SNS use and online social support affecting either stress or life satisfaction. SNS users reported more online social support than nonusers did, but also higher levels of stress; the two groups did not differ in overall life satisfaction. With regard to the underlying processes, we found positive cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between asking for advice on SNS and online social support, indicating that SNS can be an effective tool for receiving social support. However, online social support was not related to higher life satisfaction or reduced stress 6 months later; instead, it seems that SNS users with lower life satisfaction and/or higher stress seek more social support online by asking for advice on SNS.

scholarly journals The Influence of Loneliness on The Mobile Phone Addiction of Contemporary College Students: The Mediating Role of Online Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Wang Bei ◽  
Su Yitong ◽  
Li Zeyu
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Support Methods ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of loneliness on the mobile phone addiction, and to investigate the role of the psychological variable of online social support. Methods: 622 college students were surveyed by using the mobile phone addiction index (MPAI) scale, Online Social Support Questionnaire for College Students and the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Results: The main effect of online social support and the mobile phone addiction on education level was significant. Loneliness was negatively correlated with online social support and the mobile phone addiction, online social support is positively correlated with the mobile phone addiction. Online social support was a complete mediator between loneliness and the mobile phone addiction.

Effect of Parent–Child Attachment on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 2196-2214
Author(s):  
Yi Yu ◽  
Shen Liu ◽  
Minghua Song ◽  
Hang Fan ◽  
Lin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Parent Child

This study investigated the relationship between parent–child attachment and social anxiety in college students, as well as the mediating role of psychological resilience and the moderating role of online social support. In total, 614 college students were recruited by the cluster sampling method. The results showed that (1) parent–child attachment was negatively correlated with college students’ social anxiety and positively correlated with their psychological resilience, (2) psychological resilience played a mediating role between parent–child attachment and college students’ social anxiety, and (3) online social support regulated the first half and second half of the mediation process in which parent–child attachment affected college students’ social anxiety through psychological resilience. These findings revealed the mechanism of parent–child attachment affecting social anxiety, which had important theoretical and empirical value for enhancing the strength of college students’ psychological resilience and alleviating social anxiety.

scholarly journals The Strength of Weak Ties Revisited: Further Evidence of the Role of Strong Ties in the Provision of Online Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110249
Author(s):  
Nicole C. Krämer ◽  
Vera Sauer ◽  
Nicole Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Received Social Support ◽  
Strength Of Weak Ties

In this work, we challenge the assumption that weak ties play uniquely important social support roles on social network sites, particularly regarding informational support. To overcome methodological limitations of earlier research, we present a mixed-methods study. Forty-one participants were interviewed and asked to identify five weak, medium, and strong ties each and to report on perceived and actually received social support (emotional, informational, instrumental, and appraisal) associated with each. Complicating traditional understandings of “the strength of weak ties,” the qualitative analyses of actual support events show that both emotional and informational support is provided by strong ties. In an additional quantitative between-subjects study design, 352 participants were asked about various aspects of a weak, medium, or strong tie. These results indicate that participants valued their strong ties more regarding every form of support. Although there were only weak correlations between perceived and recalled actually received support, people also report actual support events with strong ties to be more helpful—overall suggesting the strength of strong ties.

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