Big Data sources and methods for social and economic analyses

[EN] The Data Big Bang that the development of the ICTs has raised is providing us with a stream of fresh and digitized data related to how people, companies and other organizations interact. To turn these data into knowledge about the underlying behavior of the social and economic agents, organizations and researchers must deal with such amount of unstructured and heterogeneous data. Succeeding in this task requires to carefully plan and organize the whole process of data analysis taking into account the particularities of the social and economic analyses, which include the wide variety of heterogeneous sources of information and a strict governance policy. Grounded on the data lifecycle approach, this paper develops a Big Data architecture that properly integrates most of the non-traditional information sources and data analysis methods in order to provide a specifically designed system for forecasting social and economic behaviors, trends and changes.This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Grant TIN2013-43913-R; and by the Spanish Ministry of Education under Grant FPU14/02386.Blazquez, D.; Domenech, J. (2018). Big Data sources and methods for social and economic analyses. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 130:99-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.07.027S9911313

PHUBBING AND FEAR OF MISSING OUT AS MEDIATORS BETWEEN PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG YOUNG ADULTS

Recent studies have shown certain risk indicators for young adults\u27 decreased life satisfaction as a result of excessive social media use. However, few studies have looked at possible impact of problematic social media on life satisfaction, and less information is known about the mediating factors that contribute to this association. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether problematic social media use predicts life satisfaction among young adults. It also explored whether phubbing behaviour and fear of missing out might both serve as mediators in this relationship. A sample of 351 young adults (18–25, Mage = 19.74 years, SD = 1.84) from several countries filled the Social Media Use Questionnaire (SMUQ), Generic Scale of Phubbing (GSP), Fear of Missing Out (FoMOs), and Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). The findings showed that (a) problematic social media use was associated with lower levels of life satisfaction, (b) phubbing behaviour and fear of missing out both mediated the relationship between problematic social media use and life satisfaction, and (c) phubbing behaviour and fear of missing out sequentially mediated the relationship between problematic social media use and life satisfaction. These findings have significant implications for prevention and intervention, in raising awareness about fear of missing out in connection to social media, and highlights consideration of the need to monitor and manage the act of snubbing others when using a mobile device

Social networking site use, personality, user habit, and subjective wellbeing: a Kazakhstani pilot study

Considering the prevalence and increased use of online social networking sites (SNSs), the present study investigated the association between visiting SNSs and users' subjective wellbeing. Data were collected from 251 participants and were analyzed using partial least square-based structural equation modeling. The findings showed that there was no significant direct influence of SNS use on users' subjective wellbeing. Additionally, the study found a significant mediating influence of passion on the association between SNS visits and subjective wellbeing. Moreover, the study did not find any significant negative mediating impact of obsession with SNS visits and association with subjective wellbeing. Among various personality traits, openness to experience had a positive moderating impact and neuroticism had a negative moderating impact on the association between SNS visits and subjective wellbeing among SNS users. The study provides implications for managers and parents regarding improved SNS use and increased subjective wellbeing

La sobrecarga de información percibida por los estudiantes universitarios y su influencia en el síndrome de respuesta inmediata al smartphone durante la pandemia de la COVID-19: Tomando la perspectiva de la personalidad

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected university students’ learning and social interaction to a large level, causing different degrees of negative emotions and made them extremely sensitive to smartphone information. However, little is known about the link between personalities, perceived information overload (PIO) and smartphone immediate response syndrome (SIRS) during students' learning process in this specific emergency social context. Therefore, based on the person-environment fit model, this study investigated 482 university students from mainland China during the epidemic by a snowball sampling approach, and analyzed the relationship between their personalities, PIO and SIRS by structural equation modeling. Results indicated that individuals with extraversion and neuroticism formed SIRS from different psychological paths. PIO plays a partial mediating role between neuroticism and SIRS and a fully mediating role between extraversion and SIRS. These findings validate the association among individual personality, PIO and SIRS in the non-conventional environment and highlights the difference exist in cellphone-related psychological path between extraverted and neurotic students. Therefore, it is recommended that PIO should be controlled in a targeted manner for individuals with different personality and guide them using cellphones rationally during the epidemic.La pandemia causada por la COVID-19 ha afectado en gran medida al aprendizaje y a la interacción social de los estudiantes universitarios, provocando emociones negativas de diferentes grados y haciéndoles extremadamente sensibles a la información de los smartphones. Sin embargo, se sabe poco sobre la relación entre la personalidad, la sobrecarga de información percibida (SIP) y el síndrome de respuesta inmediata al smartphone (SIRS) durante el proceso de aprendizaje de los estudiantes en este contexto social de emergencia específico. Por lo tanto, basándose en el modelo de ajuste persona-ambiente, este estudio investigó a 482 estudiantes universitarios de China continental durante la epidemia mediante un enfoque de muestreo de bola de nieve, y analizó la relación entre su personalidad, SIP y SIRS mediante un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales. Los resultados indicaron que los individuos con extraversión y neuroticismo formaron el SIRS a partir de diferentes vías psicológicas. La SIP desempeña un papel mediador parcial entre el neuroticismo y el SIRS y un papel totalmente mediador entre la extraversión y el SIRS. Estos resultados validan la asociación entre la personalidad individual, la SIP y el SIRS en el entorno no convencional y pone de manifiesto la diferencia que existe en la trayectoria psicológica relacionada con el teléfono móvil entre los estudiantes extrovertidos y los neuróticos. Por lo tanto, se recomienda controlar la SIP de forma específica para los individuos con personalidad diferente y guiarlos en el uso racional de los teléfonos móviles durante la epidemia

Personal visual collecting and self-cataloguing

Chapter 6 analyzes the growing role of the visual in social media practices in terms of tensions between sharing, impression management and self-cataloging

Unmasking the bright–dark duality of social media use on psychological well-being : a large-scale longitudinal study

Purpose As the number of social media users continues to rise globally, a heated debate emerges on whether social media use improves or harms mental health, as well as the bidirectional relation between social media use and mental health. Motivated by this, the authors’ study adopts the stressor–strain–outcome model and social compensation hypothesis to disentangle the effect mechanism between social media use and psychological well-being. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach To empirically validate the proposed research model, a large-scale two-year longitudinal questionnaire survey on social media use was administered to a valid sample of 6,093 respondents recruited from a university in China. Structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis. Findings A longitudinal analysis reveals that social media use positively (negatively) impacts psychological well-being through the mediator of nomophobia (perceived social support) in a short period. However, social media use triggers more psychological unease, as well as more life satisfaction from a longitudinal perspective. Originality/value This study addresses the bidirectional relation between social media use and psychological unease. The current study also draws both theoretical and practical implications by unmasking the bright–dark duality of social media use on psychological well-being