Why social network site use fails to promote well-being? The roles of social overload and fear of missing out

Chai, Huanyou; Niu, Gengfeng; Lian, Shuai-Lei; Chu, Xiaowei; Liu, Sanya; Sun, Xin

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.005

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“…However, an inverted U-shaped relationship has also been detected between social media use and psychological wellbeing (Islam & Patil 2015). Technology-mediated overload can explain why more digital technology does not always result to higher subjective well-being (Chai et al 2019) Prior research has proposed that technology overload has three dimensions: information, communication, and system feature overloads (Karr-Wisniewski & Lu, 2010). Information overload occurs when the information that needs to be processed exceeds one's information processing capabilities.…”

Section: Information and Communication Overloadmentioning

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Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?

Islam

Whelan

Brooks

2020

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PurposeThis paper investigates the moderating role of multitasking computer self-efficacy on the relationship between social media affordances and social media overload as well as its moderation between social media overload and social media fatigue.Design/methodology/approachThe authors hypothesize that social media affordances will have a positive impact on social media overload (i.e. information and communication overload). They also hypothesize that social media overload will affect social media fatigue. In addition, they hypothesize that multitasking computer self-efficacy will attenuate the effect of social media affordances on both information overload and communication overload. Similarly, they also hypothesize that multitasking computer self-efficacy will attenuate the effects of both information overload and communication overload on fatigue. The authors test this model by collecting two-wave data from 220 professionals using PLS techniques.FindingsSocial media affordances have significant impacts on information overload, but not on communication overload. In turn, information overload and communication overload significantly affect social media fatigue. Multitasking computer self-efficacy was found to attenuate the effect of social media affordances on both information overload and communication overload. Furthermore, the study results suggest that multitasking computer self-efficacy attenuates the effect of information overload and reinforces the effect of communication overload on social media fatigue.Originality/valueMost prior literature focused on students rather than on professionals. There is a lack of research that investigates how the affordances of social media relate to social media overload and fatigue. Furthermore, research that investigates mitigating mechanisms of social media fatigue has been rare. This paper fills these important research gaps.

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Section: Information and Communication Overloadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?

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Brooks

2020

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“…A number of studies have also demonstrated correlations between FoMO and an array of psychological factors including psychological need satisfaction (Przybylski et al, 2013), depression (Oberst et al, 2017), anxiety (Wolniewicz et al, 2019), and general negative affect (Wolniewicz et al, 2018). FoMO has also been found to mediate the relationships between SNS use and a range of psychological and psychosocial factors including loneliness and depression (Reer et al, 2019), anxiety (Elhai et al, 2020), sensation seeking (Wang et al, 2019), and subjective well-being (Chai et al, 2019). As understandings of exactly how and why individuals engage with SNSs continue to develop, so too do our understandings of the nature of FoMO and how these two aspects of life in the digital age are related.…”

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Social network sites, fear of missing out, and psychosocial correlates

2020

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The use of Social Network Sites (SNSs) has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of daily life in developed countries throughout the world. This rise of social media has resulted in increased public concern regarding the way in which individuals engage with SNSs, and the consequences of frequent SNS use. The Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) is an example of a social psychological phenomenon which has recently received attention as a significant factor associated with experiences of SNS engagement. The following study sought to contribute to developing understandings of SNS use and FoMO. This was achieved by assessing the extent to which FoMO mediated the relationships between SNS engagement and four other psychosocial factors (psychological need satisfaction, social capital, public self-consciousness, and public self-monitoring). Quantitative data were collected from a student volunteer sample of 218 New Zealand SNS users and analysed using a series of regression analyses. Relationships between each of the assessed psychosocial variables and rates of SNS engagement were found to be mediated by FoMO. The findings of this study support the view that FoMO plays an important role in understanding the range of complex and interrelated psychosocial factors relating to rates of SNS engagement.

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“…Effects of diversity on team output/performance are inconclusive [26,27], and a typical resolution is to divide it into different sub-concepts [28]. Informational diversity referring to task and social category diversity focusing on social demographic indicators should be a common classification [29].…”

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Why online medical teams disband? The role of team diversity and leadership type

Deng

Hong

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PurposeOnline medical teams (MTs), involving collaboration between remote healthcare workers, can provide comprehensive and rapid healthcare to patients. The growth in MTs is continuing, with popularity growing among doctors and patients, but some MTs disband, which could break the continuity of healthcare services provided. We aim to address this pressing issue by exploring the effects of team diversity and leadership types on team status (i.e. team disbandment (TD)). This paper systematically investigates the influences of team diversity, including separation, variety and disparity diversity and the effects of leadership types, including strong, equal and weak types.Design/methodology/approachA data set consisting 1,071 online MTs was collected from the Good Doctor website, a leading Chinese online health community (OHC), on January 10, 2018. The data captured included 206 teams which disbanded after 3 months collaboration. Logistic regression and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) were used to examine their effects.FindingsThe results show that variety diversity, related to departments, positively affects TD, but disparity diversity, referring to clinician titles, negatively affects TD. Separation diversity, in terms of team member attitudes, exerts a negligible influence on disbandment. Although strong and equal leadership types negatively influence TD, they are seen to strengthen the positive effect of variety diversity, suggesting stable structure combinations of strong or equal-type leadership and low department diversity, as well as the match of weak-type leadership and high department diversity.Originality/valueThis paper extends the current understanding of virtual teams and OHCs by examining the role of leadership types and team diversity, and their influencing role on team status. The pairwise combinations are obtained to effectively reduce the disbandment probability of medical teams operating in OHCs, which could help platform managers, team founders and those connected with MTs deal with the team-disbandment crisis, providing both theoretical and practical implications to healthcare providers and researchers alike.

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Why social network site use fails to promote well-being? The roles of social overload and fear of missing out

Cited by 79 publications

References 67 publications

Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?

Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?

Social network sites, fear of missing out, and psychosocial correlates

Why online medical teams disband? The role of team diversity and leadership type

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