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A Research Of College Students'social Media Use Status Quo Under The Perspective Of Self Determination Theory

Posted on:2017-08-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H CongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2348330485960189Subject:Journalism
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Social media is an important part of the new media in the contemporary era, such as Micro blog, WeChat circle of friends, Twitter?Facebook and other social media has become the preferred means of online communication. Among them, the student population is the important and active users of social media. College students are the future of society, in the different professions?regions andpersonality of college students with different personality. Therefore, for the students themselves and the social media developers, with a wide range of significance on college students' social media. As a connecting link between the real and virtual, the specific use of social media can often reflect the thoughts and attitudes of users, corresponding dissemination psychology research emerge in endlessly, the current status of the study the main content of the ministry of social media, brought about by the user's psychology and social media influence, but with a positive perspective to explore self Determination of the degree of impact on the using behavior rarely.Selfdetermination theory is a kind of self-determination behavior theory formally proposed by American psychologist Deci Edward L. and Ryan Richard M. et al in 1980s. The theory consider that people are active organism, has inherent psychological growth and development potential. Self determination is a kind of experience to choose the potential, is based on the full understanding of individual needs and environmental information on the individual to freedom of choice.From the perspective of communication psychology, this study used to study college students' social determinism self-determination and the status quo of the relationship between social media use. Before by studying the reference research, at first, lists four problems:(1) Between different sex (male and female) and grade (high grade and low grade), what is the difference about the students in the use of social media status? (2) Different gender and grade of college students in social self-determination on whether there is a difference? (3) Will the college students' social self decision can affect the use of social media status? (4) What is the Self determined a higher degree of community social media use situation.Through questionnaires, the revised questionnaire and collect data, to get the following conclusions:(1) from the gender perspective, different gender in the use of the status quo is not significantly.In many ways, junior and senior used to more species. The number of comments. In others, high grade students are significantly lower than the low grade students. In the "browse", graduate students browse friends dynamic frequency should be higher. In dependence on the use of social media, there is no significant difference on different grade and gender of students. (2) the friendship of self determine degree between different grades is not significant difference, different gender friendship self determines the existence of significant difference degree. (3) overall social media use and friendship self-determination degree has no correlation, detailed use status in social media communication function of use and friendship self-determination degree of correlation, for high friendship self-determination degree students, were more likely to use social media in the communication function. In social media depend on the extent, the stronger the friendship self-determination, the less dependent on social media. (4)In terms of social media use, high degree of friendship self-determination groups tend to use social media release, thumb up and comments in favor of the function of the communication with other individuals. It should be clear to the social media developers, "mass" is one of human nature, can pay more attention to in the future the function of the development of social media interactive software users.
Keywords/Search Tags:social media, Motivation, Self determinism, Friendship self-determination
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