How can I determine whether social media influences adolescents' positive behaviors? e.g. Prosocial behaviors. If it is possible to determine, please suggest me the validated social media tools to relate to Prosocial Behaviors.
It is a bit tricky to answer, as well as to determine wether social media influences prosocial behavior or not. There's no validated social media tool on prosocial behavior either. Addition tools are necessary. Some suggestions:
- Prisoner's Dilemma /Trust games to evaluate cooperation and prosocial begavior
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- Methodology used in the article by Greitemeyer Article Effects of Prosocial Media on Social Behavior When and Why D...
Hope, it hepls.
Research on prosocial media is hampered by lack of definition as what constitutes prosocial content in media and lack of knowledge about how prosocial outcomes—once identified—might then be measured.
Hi Debela,
You may wanna look at two of my recent publications on Social Media Voicing and Citizenship behaviours (both forms of prosocial behaviour). The papers are based on Social networking sites
Following are the links:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040162520309276
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITP-04-2020-0190/full/html
Recent findings ( Lavertu et al., 2020): Online audiences become more salient, people show greater intentions of engaging in prosocial behaviour offline. This effect is mediated by higher public self-awareness and extrinsic motivations.
Lavertu, L., Marder, B., Erz, A., & Angell, R. (2020). The extended warming effect of social media: Examining whether the cognition of online audiences offline drives prosocial behavior in ‘real life’. Computers in Human Behavior, 106389.
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