The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates.
The increased use of social networking sites like Facebook allows users to conveniently form online supporting relationships with each other. Six hypotheses in this study explored how the perceived locus and controllability of the cause of an event may influence a new form of online supporting relat...
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| author | Tan, Hui Ting. |
| author2 | Lee Sau-Lai |
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| description | The increased use of social networking sites like Facebook allows users to conveniently form online supporting relationships with each other. Six hypotheses in this study explored how the perceived locus and controllability of the cause of an event may influence a new form of online supporting relationship – posting and responding to status updates. Results showed that perceived locus and controllability did not predict the likelihood of posting negative nor positive events on one’s status update on Facebook. It also did not predict the likelihood of responding to a status update about a negative event. Perceived locus and controllability were however able to predict the likelihood of responding to a status update about a positive event. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/354452019-12-10T11:08:31Z The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. Tan, Hui Ting. Lee Sau-Lai School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology The increased use of social networking sites like Facebook allows users to conveniently form online supporting relationships with each other. Six hypotheses in this study explored how the perceived locus and controllability of the cause of an event may influence a new form of online supporting relationship – posting and responding to status updates. Results showed that perceived locus and controllability did not predict the likelihood of posting negative nor positive events on one’s status update on Facebook. It also did not predict the likelihood of responding to a status update about a negative event. Perceived locus and controllability were however able to predict the likelihood of responding to a status update about a positive event. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-16T08:33:35Z 2010-04-16T08:33:35Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35445 en Nanyang Technological University 51 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology Tan, Hui Ting. The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title | The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title_full | The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title_fullStr | The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title_short | The role of perceived attributions in predicting Facebook status updates. |
| title_sort | role of perceived attributions in predicting facebook status updates |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35445 |
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