Uses and gratifications of social networking use: Associations with social capital and subjective well-being

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2023-07-08 DOI:10.3233/hsm-220132

Ella Mittal, T. Rani

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BACKGROUND: In recent years, social media has surged in popularity and affected every facet of people’s lives from the office environment to leisure time by transforming their lifestyles and influencing well-being. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of social networking usage on the subjective well-being of users by first determining the key gratifications that motivate them to use social networking sites by applying the uses and gratification theory, and then focusing on psychological outcomes such as social capital that affect their subjective well-being. METHOD: The data were collected from 400 students of reputed universities in North India by adopting a judgemental sampling technique. RESULTS: Results indicated that key gratifications such as entertainment, tension release, personal integration, information seeking, emotional connection and socialization played a significant role in social networking usage. Moreover, social networking usage had a significant impact on bonding social capital, bridging social capital and subjective wellbeing. Furthermore, results showed that bonding social capital, and bridging social capital could significantly mediate the relationship between social networking usage and subjective well-being. CONCLUSIONS: Social networking usage has the potential to promote social capital and subjective well-being by addressing the fundamental needs of users in life.

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社交网络使用的使用和满足:与社会资本和主观幸福感的关联

背景：近年来，社交媒体大受欢迎，通过改变人们的生活方式和影响他们的幸福感，影响了人们生活的方方面面，从办公环境到休闲时间。目的：本研究的目的是通过应用使用和满足理论，首先确定激励用户使用社交网站的关键满足感，然后关注影响用户主观幸福感的心理结果，如社会资本，来调查社交网络使用对用户主观幸福的影响。方法：采用评判性抽样技术，从北印度著名大学的400名学生中收集数据。结果：结果表明，娱乐、压力释放、个人融入、信息寻求、情感联系和社会化等关键满足感在社交网络使用中起着重要作用。此外，社交网络的使用对联结社会资本、连接社会资本和主观幸福感产生了重大影响。此外，研究结果表明，联结社会资本和桥接社会资本可以显著调节社交网络使用与主观幸福感之间的关系。结论：社交网络的使用有可能通过满足用户生活中的基本需求来促进社会资本和主观幸福感。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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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.

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