Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users
Using data from 13,789 Facebook users across U.S. states, this study examined the main effects of societal-level cultural tightness-looseness and its interaction effects with individuals' social network density on impression management (IM) in terms of online emotional expression. Results showe...
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| author | Liu, Pan Chan, David Qiu, Lin Tov, William Tong, Victor Joo Chuan |
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| description | Using data from 13,789 Facebook users across U.S. states, this study examined the main effects of societal-level cultural tightness-looseness and its interaction effects with individuals' social network density on impression management (IM) in terms of online emotional expression. Results showed that individuals from culturally tight (vs. loose) states were more likely to express positive emotions and less likely to express negative emotions. Meanwhile, for positive emotional expression, there was a tightness-looseness by social network density interaction effect. In culturally tight states, individuals with dense (vs. sparse) networks were more likely to express positive emotions, while in culturally loose states this pattern was reversed. For negative emotional expression, however, no such interaction was observed. Our findings highlight the influence of cultural norms and social network structure on emotional expressions as IM strategies. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1370532020-02-17T06:59:52Z Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users Liu, Pan Chan, David Qiu, Lin Tov, William Tong, Victor Joo Chuan School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Psychology Impression Management Emotional Expression Using data from 13,789 Facebook users across U.S. states, this study examined the main effects of societal-level cultural tightness-looseness and its interaction effects with individuals' social network density on impression management (IM) in terms of online emotional expression. Results showed that individuals from culturally tight (vs. loose) states were more likely to express positive emotions and less likely to express negative emotions. Meanwhile, for positive emotional expression, there was a tightness-looseness by social network density interaction effect. In culturally tight states, individuals with dense (vs. sparse) networks were more likely to express positive emotions, while in culturally loose states this pattern was reversed. For negative emotional expression, however, no such interaction was observed. Our findings highlight the influence of cultural norms and social network structure on emotional expressions as IM strategies. ASTAR (Agency for Sci., Tech. and Research, S’pore) Accepted version 2020-02-17T05:51:33Z 2020-02-17T05:51:33Z 2018 Journal Article Liu, P., Chan, D., Qiu, L., Tov, W., & Tong, V. J. C. (2018). Effects of cultural tightness–looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(11), 1567-1581. doi:10.1177/01461672187709993 0146-1672 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137053 10.1177/0146167218770999 29742997 2-s2.0-85054415251 11 44 1567 1581 en Personality & social psychology bulletin © 2018 The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. All rights reserved. This paper was published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and is made available with permission of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Impression Management Emotional Expression Liu, Pan Chan, David Qiu, Lin Tov, William Tong, Victor Joo Chuan Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title | Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title_full | Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title_fullStr | Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title_short | Effects of cultural tightness-looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions : a large-scale study of impression management by Facebook users |
| title_sort | effects of cultural tightness looseness and social network density on expression of positive and negative emotions a large scale study of impression management by facebook users |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology Impression Management Emotional Expression |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137053 |
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