Active and Passive Facebook Use and Associated Costly Off-line Helping Behavior

Bibliographic Data

ID13675226
AuthorsY L Ng (0000-0002-7140-1616, Hong Kong Baptist University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume123
Issue6
Pages2562-2581
Publication date2019-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0033294119860262
PMID31272291
OpenAlexW2954184287
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited43

This study examined active and passive Facebook use and the associated costly altruistic behavior. Results supported the hypothesis that social media use, particularly active use, can enhance the perceived relatedness of individuals in need and reduce the influence of genetic relatedness in helping. Passive social media users tended to help kin in both situations involving low and high biological cost, whereas they were less likely to risk themselves to help social media friends and strangers in extraordinary situations involving high biological cost. However, active social media users, who had a broader sense of connectedness with genetically unrelated individuals, were more willing to help social media friends and strangers in both situations involving high and low biological cost

Helping behavior · Internet privacy · Social connectedness · Social media · World Wide Web · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Psychology

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