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Exploring the impact of social media use on altruistic behaviours: an affordance approach

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  • Renee Rui Chen
  • Qiuhui Huang
  • Guowei Dou

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Although researchers have devoted great effort to explore the antecedents of altruistic behaviours (a type of organisational citizenship behaviours), the important role of technical factors (social media) remains unclear. Drawing on social comparison and organisational support theory, this study explored how social media affordances influence employees’ altruistic behaviours from both positive and negative perspectives. In this study, 302 employees from organisations in China were surveyed. We found that social media affordances could facilitate employees’ perceived organisational support and social comparison of ability. Perceived organisational support positively mediated the relationship between social media affordances and altruistic behaviours. Although the evidence did not support the notion that social comparison of ability could directly dampen altruistic behaviours, a post-hoc analysis found that it could dampen the positive impact of perceived organisational support on developing altruistic behaviours. This study expanded previous research focusing on only positive or negative effects of social media use in the workplace by investigating the dual effects and the interaction effect in between. Here, we discuss the results and provide practical guidance for managers and organisations.

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  • Renee Rui Chen & Qiuhui Huang & Guowei Dou, 2024. "Exploring the impact of social media use on altruistic behaviours: an affordance approach," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(11), pages 2589-2607, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:43:y:2024:i:11:p:2589-2607
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2023.2254909
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