The influence of empathy and self-presentation on engagement with social networking website posts

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Highlights:

• Increased liking, sharing, and commenting on negatively valenced posts.

• Increased hiding of negatively valenced posts than positive or neutral posts.

• Age predicted engagement with negatively valenced posts.

• Trait empathy predicted engagement with positively valenced posts.

• A number of aspects that encouraged engagement with posts were identified.

摘要

•Increased liking, sharing, and commenting on negatively valenced posts.•Increased hiding of negatively valenced posts than positive or neutral posts.•Age predicted engagement with negatively valenced posts.•Trait empathy predicted engagement with positively valenced posts.•A number of aspects that encouraged engagement with posts were identified.

论文关键词:Social networking websites,Emotion,Trait empathy,Sentiment,Self-presentation

论文评审过程:Received 8 November 2016, Revised 9 February 2017, Accepted 9 February 2017, Available online 10 February 2017, Version of Record 16 February 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.026