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Do College Students Benefit from Their Social Media Experience?: Social Media Involvement and Its Impact on College Students' Self-Efficacy Perception

Do College Students Benefit from Their Social Media Experience?: Social Media Involvement and Its Impact on College Students' Self-Efficacy Perception

Ling Fang, Louisa Ha
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466684508|ISBN10: 146668450X|EISBN13: 9781466684515
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8450-8.ch013
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Fang, Ling, and Louisa Ha. "Do College Students Benefit from Their Social Media Experience?: Social Media Involvement and Its Impact on College Students' Self-Efficacy Perception." Human Behavior, Psychology, and Social Interaction in the Digital Era, edited by Anabela Mesquita and Chia-Wen Tsai, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 259-278. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8450-8.ch013

APA

Fang, L. & Ha, L. (2015). Do College Students Benefit from Their Social Media Experience?: Social Media Involvement and Its Impact on College Students' Self-Efficacy Perception. In A. Mesquita & C. Tsai (Eds.), Human Behavior, Psychology, and Social Interaction in the Digital Era (pp. 259-278). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8450-8.ch013

Chicago

Fang, Ling, and Louisa Ha. "Do College Students Benefit from Their Social Media Experience?: Social Media Involvement and Its Impact on College Students' Self-Efficacy Perception." In Human Behavior, Psychology, and Social Interaction in the Digital Era, edited by Anabela Mesquita and Chia-Wen Tsai, 259-278. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8450-8.ch013

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Abstract

As young people are increasingly dependent on Social Networking sites (SNS) to socialize, seek information, and self-broadcast, their SNS consumption has been found to be associated with social capital and social support in a positive way especially among individuals with low psychological assets. This exploratory study investigated SNS involvement in relation to college students' perceived self-efficacy change afterwards based on the social cognitive theory and literature review on social media effects studies. Undergraduate students (N = 395) in a Midwest U.S. public university participated in a web survey in September 2012. Results indicated a positive potential of involving in SNS activities to strengthen users' self-efficacy. Research data also point to the mediating roles of social support and social learning on SNS involvement and self-efficacy, especially among low self-efficacy college students with homogenous SNS networks. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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