| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 資訊管理系 === 102 === The population about one billion using Facebook increases rapidly recent years. Therefore, exploring and enhancing user’s subjective well-being in Facebook has become an important topic. This study explores subjective well-being and loneliness on Facebook in a perspective of social support.
The purposes of this study are to explore the following topics in Facebook: (1) Whether self-disclosure influences social support; (2) Whether social support obtained by user enhances subjective well-being; (3) Whether social support obtained by user reduces loneliness; (4) Whether playfulness enhances subjective well-being.
This study established a model which includes self-disclosure, social support (instrumental support, emotional support, informational support), subjective well-being (mental health, self-affirmation, life satisfaction), playfulness and loneliness. We adopted network survey which was conducted in the platform of BBS-PTT, and provided vouchers to encourage user to fill in our questionnaires. There were 451 validated questionnaires collected, and the collected questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS, LISREL, SmartPLS.
This study reported the significant relationship between self-disclosure, instrumental support, emotional support and informational support; and instrumental support, mental health and life satisfaction; emotional support, mental health, self-affirmation and life satisfaction; and playfulness, mental health and self-affirmation; insignificant relationship between other variables.
The five contributions of this study are: (1) Past social support studies explored social support in real life, but our study explore social support in Internet environment; (2) Social support in the past studies was seen as a whole construct, but this study divides it into three sub constructs: instrumental support, emotional support, and informational support; (3) Past studies explored subjective well-being in real life, but this study explores subjective well-being in Internet environment; (4) Subjective well-being in the past studies was seen as a whole construct, but this study divides it into three sub constructs: mental health, self-affirmation, and life satisfaction; (5) This study symbolizes the process of user interaction in Facebook to an intact model.
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