Social compensation and Emotional Gratification Needing as Predictors of Supportive Feedback Behavior among Social networks users’
Keywords:
supportive feedback, social compensation, emotional gratification.
Abstract
The study aimed to verify the contribution of both social compensation and emotional gratification needing as predictors of supportive feedback behavior among users of social networks. The sample consisted of 237 male and female volunteers who responded to the study scale via social networks. The study relied on the correlational approach. Virtual families scale prepared by Abdullah Al-Anzi and Mahmoud Ali Moussa (2019), which dimensions consisted of the study variables.
Missing cases had been treated by replacing them with an average and verifying with no differences between data before and after treating them using the paired sample T-test. No Outlier values were observed in the sample results. The results revealed that the needing for social compensation and emotional satisfaction predict the behavior of supportive feedback, then the contribution to social compensation was higher than emotional gratification.
Keywords: supportive feedback, social compensation, emotional gratification.
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Hollenbaugh, E. E., & Everett, M. K. (2013). The effects of anonymity on self-disclosure in blogs: An application of the online disinhibition effect. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18(3), 283-302.
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Islam, A. N., Mäntymäki, M., & Kefi, H. (2019). Decomposing social networking site regret: a uses and gratifications approach. Information Technology & People.
Jenkins-Guarnieri, M. A., Wright, S. L., & Johnson, B. (2013). Development and validation of a social media use integration scale. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 2(1), 38-50.
Kramer, A. D. (2012, May). The spread of emotion via Facebook. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 767-770). ACM.
Lapidot-Lefler, N., & Barak, A. (2012). Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition. Computers in human behavior, 28(2), 434-443.
Linne, J. (2014). Common uses of Facebook among adolescents from different social sectors in Buenos Aires City. Comunicar, 22(43), 189-197.
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Pettigrew, T. F. (1998). Intergroup contact theory. Annual review of psychology, 49(1), 65-85.
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Rovenpor, D. R., O'Brien, T. C., Roblain, A., De Guissmé, L., Chekroun, P., & Leidner, B. (2019). Intergroup conflict self-perpetuates via meaning: Exposure to intergroup conflict increases meaning and fuels a desire for further conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(1), 119-140.
Rutledge, C. M., Gillmor, K. L., & Gillen, M. M. (2013). Does this profile picture make me look fat? Facebook and body image in college students. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 2(4), 251-258.
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Spradlin, A., Cuttler, C., Bunce, J. P., & Carrier, L. M. (2019). #Connected: Facebook may facilitate face-to-face relationships for introverts. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(1), 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000162
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Vaillancourt-Morel, M. P., Daspe, M. È., Lussier, Y., & Giroux-Benoît, C. (2019). For the love of being liked: a moderated mediation model of attachment, likes-seeking behaviors, and problematic Facebook use. Addiction Research & Theory, 1-9.
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2021-03-15
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Moussa, M. (2021). Social compensation and Emotional Gratification Needing as Predictors of Supportive Feedback Behavior among Social networks users’. International Journal of Research in Educational Sciences., 4(2), 323 - 352. Retrieved from https://iafh.net/index.php/IJRES/article/view/191
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