The effects of negative social media connotations on subjective wellbeing of an ageing population: A stressor-strain-outcome perspective.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, users' privacy concerns and reluctance to use have posed a challenge for the social media and wellbeing of its users. There is a paucity of research on elderly users' negative connotations of social media and the way these connotations contribute to developing passive behaviour towards social media use, which, in turn, affects subjective wellbeing. To address this research vacuum we employed the stressor-strain-outcome (SSO) approach to describe the evolution of passive social media use behaviour from the perspective of communication overload, complexity, and privacy. We conceptualized subjective wellbeing as a combination of three components-negative feelings, positive feelings, and life satisfaction. Negative and positive feelings were used to derive an overall affect ba

SUBMITTER: Zolkepli IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826960 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature