The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues

The objective of this paper is to explore the current trend of using symbolic interactionism as an underpinning theory by revealing the gaps in the elements of the theory, methodology, and suggesting the direction for future research. This communication theory is unique because of the elements; self, society, and the environment. Normally, symbolic interactionism theory (SIT) has been used in identity and healthcare studies. While studies using this theory in entrepreneurship are still lacking. It is shown that this study mostly focuses on the sociology perspective compared to the social-psychology perspective. Therefore, this paper was adopted with a thematic analysis of 116 articles using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning. The findings show previous research that utilised symbolic interactionism in entrepreneurship is still less. This study found that previous studies have focused more on "Looking-Glass-self" by Goffman compared to the overall perspective of self-society-environment and lack of studies focusing on the entrepreneurship field. This systematic review is expected to give understanding and knowledge to readers about SIT, theory gaps through the elements, and directions for future research to consider using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning in the entrepreneurial phenomenon.

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Online Content Sharing Behavior: A Review on the Social Psychology Perspective

Proceedings of the 2nd International Research Conference on Economics and Business ◽

10.5220/0008787402970305 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Yessy Artanti

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Online Content ◽

Content Sharing ◽

The Social ◽

Psychology Perspective ◽

Sharing Behavior

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A Continuance Model for Optimized Participation in Virtual Communities

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Handbook of Research on Integrating Social Media into Strategic Marketing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8353-2.ch012 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 187-206

Author(s):

Mohana Shanmugam ◽

Yusmadi Yah Jusoh

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Perceived Value ◽

Social Commerce ◽

Planned Behaviour ◽

Participation Level ◽

The Social ◽

Psychology Perspective ◽

Psychology Literature ◽

Pls Method

The social commerce wave has opened up vast opportunities in emerging markets through virtual communities' participation. This chapter investigates the constructs and theories from the social psychology perspective looking into the intention and behaviour prospect by extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and integrating the Social Support Theory (SST) to purport a continuance model for virtual communities' optimized participation in Malaysia. The model uncovers that the emotional and informational constructs of the SST and constructs of the TPB as well as perceived value optimizes participation. This chapter also establishes a continuance model and illustrates how theory from the social psychology literature positions the constructs of SST, TPB and perceived value in enhancing the participation of virtual communities. The SEM-PLS method used to analyse the data shows that the intention and behaviour of the virtual communities determine users' participation level. Furthermore, this chapter seeks to enlighten our knowledge on virtual communities and tap into the social commerce capabilities.

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Encouraging people to embrace feedback-seeking in online learning

Internet Research ◽

10.1108/intr-04-2017-0162 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 749-771

Author(s):

Manli Wu ◽

Xiaojuan Xu ◽

Lele Kang ◽

J. Leon Zhao ◽

Liang Liang

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Online Learning ◽

Goal Orientation ◽

Social Risk ◽

Feedback Seeking ◽

Content Type ◽

Relational Value ◽

The Social ◽

Psychology Perspective ◽

Informational Value

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of perceived informational value and perceived relational value on feedback-seeking intention in online communities of inquiry (OCoIs). To develop an integrated theoretical framework, the antecedents of perceived informational value and perceived relational value are also investigated. Design/methodology/approach This study builds on the relational communication theory (RCT) and the social psychology perspective to develop an integrated research model regarding feedback-seeking. Hypotheses were empirically tested using data collected from 262 subjects who are members of OCoIs. Findings The results indicate that feedback-seeking intention is positively affected by perceived informational and relational value of feedback-seeking. Furthermore, perceived informational value partially mediates the effects of feedback-seeking self-efficacy and learning goal orientation on feedback-seeking intention; perceived relational value partially mediates the effects of social influence and social risk on feedback-seeking intention. Practical implications The results suggest that practitioners can promote feedback-seeking by enhancing learners’ informational and relational dependencies on OCoIs. To achieve effective online learning, practitioners should consider learners’ characteristics to provide personalized learning interventions. Originality/value This study advances RCT and the social psychology perspective to develop an integrated model for understanding feedback-seeking. The empirical results complement information-related explanations of feedback-seeking by finding that a relationship-related explanation is more important for promoting feedback-seeking in OCoIs. The proposed model also indicates that tolerance for ambiguity serves as a moderator in the relationship between perceived informational value and its antecedents.

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