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Kaspar, Kai ORCID: 0000-0002-5092-6798 and Müller-Jensen, Moritz (2021). Information seeking behavior on Facebook: The role of censorship endorsement and personality. Current Psychology, 40 (8). S. 3848 - 3860. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1936-4733

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Abstract

Facebook started as a platform intended for connecting people but it has developed into a rich information source. Based on the uses-and-gratification approach, we examined to what extent censorship endorsement and personality factors can explain information seeking behavior on Facebook. 1525 German-speaking Facebook users participated in a cross-sectional survey. Censorship endorsement, three personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, and openness), age, and gender served as predictors in blockwise regression models. Participants' information seeking behavior on Facebook served as the criterion variable, whereby we examined different behavioral strategies. Overall, the extent of one's endorsement of censorship was positively and reliably related to different facets of information seeking. Apparently, censorship might be considered a protection measure to establish a decent communication and information space. In contrast, personality traits were inconsistently related to different facets of information seeking. Extraversion and neuroticism were positively related to information seeking in general, but their impact was absent on some subscales. The effects of age and gender differed from what has been found in previous studies. Overall, the results highlight the necessity of a more differentiated perspective on social media use, provide implications for uses-and-gratification research in the context of social media, and indicate interesting venues for future research by incorporating censorship attitude as a hitherto neglected factor.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kaspar, Kai UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-6798 UNSPECIFIED Müller-Jensen, Moritz UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-563116
DOI:	10.1007/s12144-019-00316-8
Journal or Publication Title:	Current Psychology
Volume:	40
Number:	8
Page Range:	S. 3848 - 3860
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1936-4733
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Weitere Institute, Arbeits- und Forschungsgruppen > Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für empirische LehrerInnen- und Unterrichtsforschung (IZeF)
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAITS; GRATIFICATIONS; EXTROVERSION; MOTIVATIONS; ATTITUDES Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56311