Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users

The most influential factor that affects the potential of individual fulfilment is interpersonal attraction; a perception of being attractive and feeling attracted towards another. Although social media, e.g. Facebook, offers an alternative for Face-to-Face (FtF) interaction by reading news and upda...

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Main Author:	Attan, Sri Azra
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Interpersonal attraction Self-presentation Social networks
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99113/1/FBMK%202021%2021%20IR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.991132023-02-15T02:12:33Z Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users 2019-12 Attan, Sri Azra The most influential factor that affects the potential of individual fulfilment is interpersonal attraction; a perception of being attractive and feeling attracted towards another. Although social media, e.g. Facebook, offers an alternative for Face-to-Face (FtF) interaction by reading news and updates, Mediated-Communication users tend to post more negative items, which undesirably affected their happiness in life. This makes interpersonal attraction in cyberspace is more challenging compared to FtF environment. Since interpersonal attraction is developed during the initial interaction, there is a large amount of uncertainty that needs to be assured to experience happiness in life. The limitation of previous studies is when the scholars were only focusing on the direct effect of interpersonal attraction on life happiness. Thus, there should be a mediating variable to strengthen the relationship between interpersonal attraction and life happiness. Hence, this study examined the mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits, namely physical attraction, social attraction, extraversion and popularity towards life happiness amongst Facebook users. A quantitative survey was conducted by distributing a set of a questionnaire via a survey-development website to 402 Facebook users who were selected through snowball sampling technique. It was found that as more physical attraction, social attraction and extraversion are shown by other Facebook users; the lower the uncertainty, the higher the life happiness. However, as more popularity is shown by other Facebook users; the lower the uncertainty, however, it is not enhancing the life happiness. The role of mediated-communication is a new perspective of the predicament in the communication field since this study contributed to a worthier understanding of online human behaviour. Interpersonal attraction Self-presentation Social networks 2019-12 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99113/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99113/1/FBMK%202021%2021%20IR.pdf text en public doctoral Universiti Putra Malaysia Interpersonal attraction Self-presentation Social networks Bolong, Jusang
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language	English
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topic	Interpersonal attraction Self-presentation Social networks
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description	The most influential factor that affects the potential of individual fulfilment is interpersonal attraction; a perception of being attractive and feeling attracted towards another. Although social media, e.g. Facebook, offers an alternative for Face-to-Face (FtF) interaction by reading news and updates, Mediated-Communication users tend to post more negative items, which undesirably affected their happiness in life. This makes interpersonal attraction in cyberspace is more challenging compared to FtF environment. Since interpersonal attraction is developed during the initial interaction, there is a large amount of uncertainty that needs to be assured to experience happiness in life. The limitation of previous studies is when the scholars were only focusing on the direct effect of interpersonal attraction on life happiness. Thus, there should be a mediating variable to strengthen the relationship between interpersonal attraction and life happiness. Hence, this study examined the mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits, namely physical attraction, social attraction, extraversion and popularity towards life happiness amongst Facebook users. A quantitative survey was conducted by distributing a set of a questionnaire via a survey-development website to 402 Facebook users who were selected through snowball sampling technique. It was found that as more physical attraction, social attraction and extraversion are shown by other Facebook users; the lower the uncertainty, the higher the life happiness. However, as more popularity is shown by other Facebook users; the lower the uncertainty, however, it is not enhancing the life happiness. The role of mediated-communication is a new perspective of the predicament in the communication field since this study contributed to a worthier understanding of online human behaviour.
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author	Attan, Sri Azra
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title	Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
title_short	Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
title_full	Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
title_fullStr	Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
title_full_unstemmed	Mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
title_sort	mediating effect of uncertainty on relationship between interpersonal attraction traits and life happiness amongst facebook users
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99113/1/FBMK%202021%2021%20IR.pdf
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