Factors affecting social network use by students in Tunisia

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI:10.3233/hsm-220017

Hanen Khanchel

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BACKGROUND: Several theories have developed instruments for assessing the acceptance of using technologies. This work is a continuation of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) research for the review of the factors affecting the acceptance of digital social networks (DSN) among Tunisian students. OBJECTIVE: We aim to bring a better understanding of technology use in the educational context. More specifically, we investigate the determinants of digital social network (DSN) acceptance by Tunisian students and the effects of this acceptance on students’outcomes in the presence of social isolation as a mediating variable and fear of COVID-19 to ensure the continuity of university pedagogy. METHOD: We used the survey method, sampling stutents (N = 100) during the COVID-19 pandemic to test this model. For the data analysis, this study employed structural equation modeling through the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and condition process modeling. RESULTS: The research found that Social Influence (SI); Effort Expectancy (EE), Facilitating Conditions (FC), and Performance Expectancy (PE) have a significant and affirmative effect on the behavioral intention (BI) and influence of behavioral intention on digital social network (DSN) user behavior in learning (UBL). Furthermore, Social Isolation (SIS) as a mediating variable and fear of COVID-19 (FOC) has a significant effect between dimensions of adjusted unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model and behavioural intention of learning by digital social network (DSN) applications. CONCLUSION: The new adjusted conceptual model is a significant contribution to the current knowledge, which will enhance the dimensions of the actual unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model. Moreover, the findings have significant implications for educators and decision-makers involved in designing learning through digital social network (DSN) applications for implementation in universities.

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影响突尼斯学生使用社交网络的因素

背景:一些理论已经开发了评估使用技术的接受程度的工具。这项工作是接受和使用技术的统一理论(UTAUT)研究的延续，旨在审查影响突尼斯学生接受数字社交网络(DSN)的因素。目的:我们的目标是在教育环境中更好地理解技术的使用。更具体地说，我们调查了突尼斯学生接受数字社会网络(DSN)的决定因素，以及在社会孤立作为中介变量和对COVID-19的恐惧存在的情况下，这种接受对学生结果的影响，以确保大学教学的连续性。方法:采用调查方法，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间抽样学生(N = 100)对该模型进行检验。在数据分析方面，本研究采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)和条件过程模型进行结构方程建模。结果:研究发现:社会影响(SI);努力期望(EE)、促进条件(FC)和绩效期望(PE)对行为意愿(BI)和行为意愿对数字社交网络(DSN)用户学习行为(UBL)的影响具有显著的正向作用。此外，社会隔离(SIS)作为中介变量，在调整后的技术接受与使用统一理论(UTAUT)模型维度与数字社交网络(DSN)应用学习行为意向之间存在显著影响。结论:调整后的新概念模型是对现有知识的重大贡献，它将增强实际接受与使用技术统一理论(UTAUT)模型的维度。此外，研究结果对参与通过数字社交网络(DSN)应用程序设计学习并在大学实施的教育工作者和决策者具有重要意义。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.