Social comparison of fitness social media postings by fitness app users

Kim, Hyung-Min

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107204

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“…Moreover, PLS-SEM can deal with non-normally distributed data, lesser restriction on sample size and needing greater statistical power (Sarstedt et al, 2021). Additionally, PLS-SEM has been frequently utilized in mobile apps research and also the fitness activities (Abbasi et al, 2021;Kim, 2022;Tani et al, 2022;Yan et al, 2021). SmartPLS v. 3.2.9 is used to investigate how AI-enabled service quality and four other variables (Technological Functions, Intrinsic Information Quality, Perceived Enjoyment, and Social Connection) as possible antecedents which could be employed to predict and explain the attitude toward physical activity.…”

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“…Understanding what factors affect consumers' use of fitness apps, and how to improve consumers' behavioral intentions and positive attitudes toward participation has gradually become the only way for smart fitness companies to profit in a highly competitive environment (Kim, 2022). Since the positive development of attitude is the most important, for fitness apps, the understanding of the antecedents of its participation attitude has become an important topic.…”

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The Moderation Role of AI-Enabled Service Quality on the Attitude Toward Fitness Apps

Tseng

Chen

2023

Journal of Global Information Management

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Artificial intelligent technology is rapidly transforming the fitness apps landscape by applying data mining technologies within given parameters. These wide-ranging AI-enabled services improve user interface and enhance customers' experience when exercising with the fitness apps. The current study integrated the four antecedents—technological functions, intrinsic information quality, perceived enjoyment, and social connection—to investigate the moderating influence of AI-enabled service quality on users' attitude toward physical activity. PLS-SEM was used to analyze and validate a sample of 170 participants. The findings posited that individuals' attitude toward physical activity is encouraged by the (1) technological functions (2) intrinsic information quality, and (3) perceived enjoyment. Further, the moderating role of AI-enabled service positively influencing the attitude toward physical activity with technological functions was also established.

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The Moderation Role of AI-Enabled Service Quality on the Attitude Toward Fitness Apps

Tseng

Chen

2023

Journal of Global Information Management

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“…Individuals may make upward, downward, or parallel social comparisons according to their emotions or motivations ( Johnson and Knobloch-Westerwick, 2014 ). In downward social comparison, people compare themselves with those they perceive to be inferior to them in terms of living environment, quality, or ability ( Kim, 2022 ). Conversely, in upward social comparison, people compare themselves with those whose attributes and abilities they perceive as superior to their own ( Dinh and Lee, 2022 ).…”

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The impact of social media influencers’ bragging language styles on consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands: The dual mediation of envy and trustworthiness

Feng

Chang²,

Sun³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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On social media, luxury brand managers often use influencers’ bragging language as a marketing tool. As modesty is considered a virtue in the Chinese context, Chinese influencers tend to adopt a humblebragging language style. Research has examined the impact of bragging language styles on luxury brands and has found that humblebragging, which appears to be modest, has a negative influence on brand attitudes. From the perspective of social comparison theory, we proposed a dual mediation model of malicious envy and trustworthiness to reveal the internal mechanisms and moderating factors of the negative effects of humblebragging. The results of three experiments indicated that compared with straightforward bragging, humblebragging was more likely to elicit malicious envy and lower levels of trust in an influencer, resulting in negative attitudes toward the luxury brand endorsed. Moreover, this negative effect was stronger when the influencer lacked expertise or had high similarity with consumers. Our findings enrich the antecedents of social media influencer marketing and provide managers with implications for maximizing the effectiveness of influencer marketing by matching influencers with word-of-mouth content.

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“…Similarly, health researchers have also found that obesity is transmitted among friends and siblings, demonstrating the role of the network effect ( 40 , 41 ). Moreover, Kim found that upward comparison has a significant positive effect on the self-efficacy of fitness App users ( 42 ).…”

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The impact of online health community engagement on lifestyle changes: A serially mediated model

Zhou

Zhao²,

Xiao³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundDue to reduced physical labor and increased food availability, making healthy lifestyle changes is becoming increasingly challenging. Prior studies have suggested that strong ties (such as friends or family members) help promote positive lifestyle behavior changes while weak ties like online friends hardly make a difference in activating healthy lifestyle changes. More recent studies have found evidence of positive lifestyle changes brought about by health APPs. Yet, the process through which online health community (OHC) engagement is related to healthy lifestyle changes has not been fully explored.MethodsDrawing on social network theory and the self-efficacy literature, we argued that the information and emotional support which users obtained from OHCs is positively associated with health self-efficacy, which in turn is positively associated with lifestyle changes. Then we constructed a serially mediated model between OHC engagement and healthy lifestyle changes and collected 320 valid questionnaires through an online survey. We tested the model by applying structural equation modeling via Mplus 8.3, which uses bootstrapping (5,000 samples) to test the significance of the mediated paths.ResultsThis study demonstrated that the informational and emotional support that users receive from OHC engagement positively affects healthy lifestyle changes via the mediating role of health self-efficacy. We also found that healthy lifestyle changes are an outcome of enhanced health self-efficacy through the effect of informational and emotional support from OHC engagement.ConclusionsOur findings help explain how OHC users make healthy lifestyle changes by utilizing the informational and emotional support to develop health self-efficacy. The results also highlight the value of informational and emotional support as important resources which users acquire from OHC engagement. Thus, we suggest that OHC users utilize the informational and emotional support to enhance health self-efficacy and facilitate healthy lifestyle changes. Future research could explore the dynamic process through which OHC engagement influences lifestyle changes by designing longitudinal research and addressing the limitations of the present study.

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Social comparison of fitness social media postings by fitness app users

Cited by 34 publications

References 40 publications

The Moderation Role of AI-Enabled Service Quality on the Attitude Toward Fitness Apps

The Moderation Role of AI-Enabled Service Quality on the Attitude Toward Fitness Apps

The impact of social media influencers’ bragging language styles on consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands: The dual mediation of envy and trustworthiness

The impact of online health community engagement on lifestyle changes: A serially mediated model

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