| The social capital comes from the collective effect of social network and social relations,and it has an important impact on individual’s physical and mental health.With the development of science and technology,the emergence of virtual society provides a broader platform for the establishment and maintenance of individual relations.College students can show themselves,establish and maintain contact with others,expand their social network on social networking sites.Therefore social networking site has also become an important way for individuals to obtain social capital.And because its unique ability to maintain the relationship between weak ties relative to the reality of social,So that individuals can get more bridging social capital.Although a large number of studies have confirmed that the use of social networking sites can bring social capital to individuals,these studies do not distinguish between different types of the use behavior of social networking sites.So this study combines different types of social networking sites using behavioral and the relationship with social capital.In addition,interpersonal trust is the basis of social interaction into social capital.This study also examine the role of network interpersonal trust,that is,the mechanism of how to use social networking sites to bring social capital,trying to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between social networking sites use behavior and social capital.Because the measurement of different types of social networking site use behavior is not perfect in China,with reference to foreign research on Facebook use,this study revised the use of multidimensional social networking sites.On the basis of the revision,we investigates the use of social networking sites,social interpersonal trust level and social capital of 468 undergraduates in Wuhan by using the network interpersonal trust scale and social capital scale.The study found that there were significant differences in the frequency of the three types of use of the social networking sites among college students,but all these three types have significant relationship with the acquisition of bonded social capital and bridged social capital.The high level of social networking use behavior brings more social capital to the individual.Among this the active use behavior can predict the two kinds of social capital,and passive use behavior can predict the bridge social capital.And the network interpersonal trust partially mediated the association of the use of social networking sites with social capital.The online interpersonal trust of college students has played a partial mediating role in the positive personal use behavior of social networking sites and the relationship between bonded social capital and bridged social capital,and has a complete mediating role between positive public use behavior and two kinds of social capital.The conclusions of this study are as follows:1.The college students have about 150 to 200 friends in the social networking site on average.They spend spent on average between 1 and 2 hours daily on social networking site.There are significant differences in terms of passive use when it comes to the different gender and grade.Positive individual use behavior is significantly different in grade.The positive public use behavior and the total score of multidimensional social networking site use have no significant difference on gender and grade.2.Undergraduate have about 3 to 5 trusted friends in the social networking site on average.And the level of network interpersonal trust significantly different when it comes to grade.3.The bridging social capital of the third grade college students is significantly higher than that of the bonded social capital,but the difference between the two kinds of social capital is not significant of the students in other grade in our study.There is no significant difference of bonded social capital,bridged social capital and social capital in gender and grade.4.The number of friends,the average daily time spend on social networking sites,social networking site use intensity,multidimensional social networking site and the dimension of it have significant associations with the network interpersonal trust,bonded social capital,bridging social capital and social capital.The interpersonal trust could partially mediate the relationship between the use of social networking sites and social capital,with the mediating effect of which were 51.71%.Direct effect of the use of social networking sites on the social capital is 0.26.The interpersonal trust help could partially mediate the relationship between social networking site use behavior and social capital,and the indirect effect of online interpersonal trust is 0.2784.5.The online interpersonal trust of college students has played a mediating role in the positive personal use behavior of social networking sites and the relationshipbetween bonded social capital and bridged social capital,and has a complete mediating role between positive public use behavior and two kinds of social capital. |
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