Double-edged effects of role stress on self-disclosure on social networking sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yang Pan ◽  
Zhichao Cheng

As the number of users' social connections on social networking sites increases, different types of role stress may occur for these users. We conducted an empirical analysis of 312 WeChat Moments users, to obtain insight into how perceived role stress (role conflict, role overload, and role ambiguity) and different stress responses (impression management vs. social fatigue) influence online selfdisclosure behaviors. The results suggest that role overload and role ambiguity both had a suppressive effect on self-disclosure: Role ambiguity reduced social networking site users' need to maintain a personal network impression, whereas role overload increased their psychological fatigue in relation to interpersonal interactions. Further, although role conflict increased social fatigue, it also promoted the use of more impression management measures to promote self-disclosure. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 103147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Zhang ◽  
Ron Chi-Wai Kwok ◽  
Paul Benjamin Lowry ◽  
Zhiying Liu ◽  
Ji Wu

Author(s):  
SooMin Ryu ◽  
TaeYong Yoo

The first purpose of the study was to examine the mediating effect of psychological contract breach in the relationship between role stress(role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload) and organizational commitment. The second purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of resilience in the relationship between role stress(role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload) and psychological contract breach. For these purposes, data were collected from 267 employees working in various corporations by questionnaires. Results indicated that role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload have positive effects on psychological contract breach, and that psychological contract breach has a negative effect on organizational commitment. The psychological contract breach partially mediated the relationship between role ambiguity and organizational commitment, and fully mediated the relationship between role conflict and role overload and organizational commitment. The moderation effect of resilience was found because resilience weakens the positive relationship between role overload and psychological contract breach. Based on these results, academic and practical implications were discussed. Finally, the limitations of this study and directions for the future research were discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary R. Lagace ◽  
Stephen B. Castleberry ◽  
Rick E. Ridnour

With the movement in the U.S. economy toward a total quality environment, there will be a greater focus on relationships building within an organization. This study sought to empirically explore the association between sales manager salesperson relationships and salesperson motivation, stress, and evaluation of the manager. Results suggest that cadres (high quality relationships) are higher on extrinsic and intrinsic instrumentality, extrinsic valence, and evaluation of their manager. Cadres are lower on the role overload, role insufficiency, role ambiguity, and role conflict. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are offered.


2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1082-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilmaz Akgunduz

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to explore the influence of self-esteem and role stress on job performance in the hotel businesses. Moreover, the research aims to discover which role stress factors, i.e. role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload, have the most detrimental effect on an employee’s role stress in the hotel businesses. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the above aim, four sets of hypotheses were proposed: the first looked into the effect of role stress, which consists of role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload on job performance, and the second focused on the effect of employees’ self-esteem on job performance. A questionnaire was used and participants were drawn from 227 hotel employees in Kusadasi, Turkey. To empirically test these hypotheses, structural equation modeling was implemented. Findings – The outcome of the study indicated three patterns: role ambiguity and role conflict are negatively associated with job performance; role overload and self-esteem are positively associated with job performance; and role ambiguity creates more role stress than role conflict or overload. Practical implications – The research findings suggest that some practical methodology should be introduced to improve employees’ job performance and diminish role stress. For instance, hotel managers should decrease role ambiguity and conflict, employ personnel with high self-esteem and prioritize reducing role overload rather than reducing role ambiguity or role conflict. Originality/value – The research findings suggest that both role stress and self-esteem are important factors influencing job performance in hotel management. This paper aims to identify some important steps to increase job performance. Thus, our study should prove to be of great value to those in hotel management.


1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Ted Brown

Occupational therapy is a female-dominated profession with only 5.8% of all clinicians being men. Traditionally, occupational therapy education programmes have had limited success in recruiting men and those men who do become therapists tend to work in the profession for only short periods of time. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that have an impact on male occupational therapists. Specifically, role strain due to community, colleagues and patients, three types of role stress (role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload) and the demographic characteristics of male occupational therapists in Canada were examined. Role strain is a subjective state of emotional arousal (such as increased level of awareness, general emotional arousal, distress, anxiety or frustration) in response to the external conditions of social stress. Community role strain was considered to arise from the negative attitudes of people outside the immediate work environment. Colleague role strain was considered to arise from the attitudes and behaviours of co-workers and others employed in the work environment. Patient role strain was considered to arise from the acts and attitudes of patients and their families. Role stress is a social structural condition in which role obligations are vague, irritating, difficult, conflicting or impossible to meet. Role ambiguity was defined as vagueness or a lack of clarity of role expectation. Role conflict was defined as role expectations that are incompatible. Role overload was defined as too much expected in the time available. A questionnaire was posted to all male therapists who were members of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (n = 199). Eighty-three per cent of the sample responded. The survey instruments consisted of a demographic questionnaire, the Egeland and Brown Rating Scale, the Rizzo, House and Lirtzman Scale and the Beehr, Walsh and Taber Scale. As a group, male occupational therapists reported a moderate level of community role strain, colleague role strain and patient role strain. Similarly, male occupational therapists also reported a moderate degree of role conflict and role overload, but had a low level of role ambiguity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 444
Author(s):  
Mertyani Sari Dewi ◽  
Made Dwi Ferayani ◽  
Gusti Putu Eka Kusuma

This research is motivated by the importance of auditor performance in determining the performance of quality public accounting firm (KAP). The ability of auditors in a professional manner in using audit techniques and procedures to improve audit quality has an effect on the resulting performance. The study was conducted to provide empirical evidence regarding efforts to improve auditor performance through Tri Hita Karana-based workplace spirituality, hardiness personality and role stress in Public Accounting Firms (KAP) throughout Bali Province. The population in this study were all KAP auditors in Bali Province who were listed in the Directory published by the Indonesian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (IAPI) in 2020. The sampling technique was purposive sampling with the criteria used by the sample, including the auditors working in KAP throughout Bali Province. is still actively operating and has a minimum of 1 year of service or audit experience. This research was tested using a variance based structural equation model (Structural Equation Modeling-SEM) or Component based SEM with the SmartPLS 3.0 analysis tool. The test results show empirical evidence that Tri Hita Karana-based workplace spirituality weakens the effect of role conflict on auditors' performance, but Tri Hita Karana-based workplace spirituality does not moderate the effect of role ambiguity and role overload on auditor performance, while hardiness  personality cannot moderate the effect of role conflict on performance. auditors, but hardiness personality weakens role ambiguity and role overload on auditor performance.


2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110252
Author(s):  
Michael Wadsley ◽  
Judith Covey ◽  
Niklas Ihssen

Compulsive seeking of reward is a hallmark feature of drug addiction, but the role of reward is less well understood in behavioural addictions. The present study investigated the predictive utility of ten reward-based motives, which we identified in the literature, in explaining excessive and problematic use of social networking sites (SNSs). These motives were examined in a cross-sectional survey of 411 young adults, revealing that prolonged use and excessive checking were predicted by distinctly different motives. More frequent checking of SNSs was most closely associated with motives related to obtaining social rewards (impression management/social comparisons/fear of missing out) and the desire to find/consume enjoyable content. In contrast, the amount of time an individual spends on SNSs was predicted by the desire to engage in negative social interactions or to fulfil personal needs (self-expression/documentation of life events). Problematic SNS use was best explained by the motivation to obtain social rewards and to a lesser extent by enjoyment and negative social potency (e.g., trolling) motives. Our results highlight the importance of social reward in explaining excessive and problematic SNS use, suggesting that a focus on reducing the desire to obtain social reward (e.g., through likes, social comparisons, continual connection) may be most beneficial in tackling problematic SNS behaviours.


Author(s):  
Nicole C. Krämer ◽  
Stephan Winter

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and StudiVZ are popular means of communicating personality. Recent theoretical and empirical considerations of homepages and Web 2.0 platforms show that impression management is a major motive for actively participating in social networking sites. However, the factors that determine the specific form of self-presentation and the extent of self-disclosure on the Internet have not been analyzed. In an exploratory study, we investigated the relationship between self-reported (offline) personality traits and (online) self-presentation in social networking profiles. A survey among 58 users of the German Web 2.0 site, StudiVZ.net, and a content analysis of the respondents’ profiles showed that self-efficacy with regard to impression management is strongly related to the number of virtual friends, the level of profile detail, and the style of the personal photo. The results also indicate a slight influence of extraversion, whereas there was no significant effect for self-esteem.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iftakar Hassan Abdulla Haji ◽  
Alessandro M. Peluso ◽  
Ad de Jong

Purpose This study aims to integrate and extend existing approaches from self-identity literature by examining the underexplored aspects of online private self-disclosure. The study first explores the experiential value co-created when consumers voluntarily self-disclose on public platforms. Second, it sheds light on what motivates such consumers to disclose private self-images and experiences, thus giving up some degree of privacy on an unrestricted platform. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted 65 laddering interviews and observed the profiles of ten consumers, who actively posted self-images on Instagram, through a netnographic study. Then, this study implemented a means-ends chain analysis on interview data. Findings This study found that online private self-disclosure can involve a co-created experiential value that consists of consumers’ self-affirmation, affective belief and emotional connection. These value components derive from three higher-order psychological consequences – empowerment, buffering offline inadequacy of self-worth and engagement – and four functional consequences – opportunity to learn, online control, self-brand authenticity and impression management. Implications Operationally, this study proposes that Instagram could be configured and synched with other social networking sites to provide a more complete representation of the online self. Using algorithms that simultaneously pull from other social networking sites can emotionally connect consumers to a more relevant and gratifying personalized experience. Additionally, managers could leverage the findings to tailor supporting tools to transfer consumers’ private self-disclosure skills learned during online communication into their offline settings. Originality This research contributes to the extant marketing literature by providing insights into how consumers can use private self-disclosure to co-create experiential value, an emerging concept in modern marketing that is key to attaining satisfied and loyal consumers. This study shows that, even in anonymous online settings, consumers are willing to self-disclose and progress to stable intimate exchanges of disclosure by breaking their inner repression and becoming more comfortable with releasing their desires in an emotional exchange.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidayatul Khusnah

Organizational support to employees is an important because can mitigate the negative effects of role stress. The negative effects of the role stress among which reduce job satisfaction, job performance and high turnover intention. Employees who feel themselves noticed by the company will be comfortable in the work so that the performance becomes better. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of perceived organizational support (POS) to the role stress (role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload) and job outcomes (job satisfaction, job performance and turnover intention). In addition, this study also want investigates the influence of role stress (role ambiguity, role conflictand role overload) to job outcomes (job satisfaction, job performance and turnover intention). This study used a sample of management accountants and staff managementaccountants at companies in the Surabaya. The number of samples in this study were 111 respondents. Testing the hypothesis in this study using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with an alternative method of Partial Least Square (PLS) using software WarpPLS 3.0. Results of this study found the negative influence of perceived organizational support(POS) to the role ambiguity and role conflict but did not find the effect of POS on role overload. Other findings in this study is the role ambiguity and role conflict negative effect on job satisfaction, job performance and a positive effect on turnover intention. But different things found on role overload to job satisfaction, job performance, and turnover intention which did not reveal any influence.


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