2014
DOI: 10.5762/kais.2014.15.6.3499
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What Makes Twitterers Retweet on Twitter? Exploring the Roles of Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation and Social Capital

Abstract: This study examined what determinants affect the intention of retweeting on Twitter from the perspectives of motivations and social psychology. The primary theoretical foundations are the theory of reasoned action (TRA), motivation theory and social capital theory. An online survey was administrated to collect the data. The data collected was analyzed using the structural equation model (SEM). The findings showed that both the attitude toward the retweeting behavior and subjective norm have significant effects… Show more

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“…In altruistic motivation, people will give priority to valuable information to forward [4]; Self-promotion motivation refers to that people will choose to promote their own image of the information to forward, such as forwarding public information and so on information reliability…”
Section: Identification Of Influencing Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In altruistic motivation, people will give priority to valuable information to forward [4]; Self-promotion motivation refers to that people will choose to promote their own image of the information to forward, such as forwarding public information and so on information reliability…”
Section: Identification Of Influencing Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thetheoryofreasonedaction(TRA)demonstratesthatbehavioralintentioncanleadtoindividual specificaction,whichinturnisinfluencedbypersonalattitudesandsubjectivenorms (Fishbein& Ajzen,1977).Apartfromthisclassicaltheory,motivationtheoryiswidelyappliedinrecentresearch. Extrinsic and intrinsic are the two main branches most likely to exert examined influence (Lee, 2014).Theformerpertainstoenvironmentaloutcomes,e.g.values,benefits,whilethelatterrefersto motivationrelatedtoenjoymentandinterestofselfregardlessofoutsidestimuli.Crucialpredictorsin knowledgesharing,forinstance,financialincentivesandpersonalreputationisclassifiedasextrinsic motivation,andaltruismisregardedasintrinsicmotivation (Hung,Durcikova,Lai,&L2011).…”
Section: Survey Question On Motivation To Repostmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Genderisaddedasarelevantvariabletoforanalysisbecauseonlineshoppingvariesbygender, Dillonetal. (2014),Wuetal. (2017asdoessocialmediausage (Bivens&Haimson,2016;Nesi&Prinstein,2015;Schwartzetal.,2013).Infact,theworkofLietal(2018)supportsgender differentiationinthisareabypredictingusergenderwithahighlevelofaccuracybasedonreposting behavior.ThisisconsistentwiththedataanalysisofthisstudyasindicatedinTable1andisdiscussed intheFindingssection.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%