García Pérez, Rafael

Jiménez Cortés, Rocío

Rebollo Catalán, María Ángeles

idUS. Depósito de Investigación Universidad de Sevilla

EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONRural Women´s Perceived Social Support As Predictor Of SubjectiveWellbeing In Virtual Social NetworksAuthor(s):Rocío Jiménez Cortés (presenting), Maria de los Angeles Rebollo-Catalan, Rafael García-PérezConference:ECER 2014, The Past, the Present and the Future of Educational ResearchNetwork:06. Open Learning: Media, Environments and CulturesFormat:PosterSession Information06 SES 05.5 PS, General Poster SessionGeneral Poster SessionTime:2014-09-0312:30-14:00Room:Poster Area E (in front of B001-B003)ContributionRural Women´s Perceived Social Support As Predictor Of Subjective Wellbeing In VirtualSocial NetworksThis study forms part of the priority areas of the European digital agenda (Europe 2020 Initiative) aimed at enhancing digitalliteracy, skills and inclusion by promoting high participation of women in the information society. Meanwhile, the SpanishPlan for Digital Inclusion and Employability proposes to increase the presence and participation of women in the informationsociety by means of training women who are unemployed, professionals, entrepreneurs, and women from rural areasalready using digital technologies to increase their ICT skills.Public policies for the promotion of the information society has aimed at fostering learning skills of technology and the use ofsocial networks by women as a strategy for their social inclusion. The uses of social networks to improve health, educationand leisure generate new relational contexts that inﬂuence the way women feel about themselves and their lives (Castaño,Martín & Vázquez, 2008). Therefore, this work is based on the general hypothesis that policies oriented to promote digitalinclusion and the use of virtual social networks contribute to the subjective well-being of women.Virtual social networks form a key context of opportunities for interaction and for the assumption of diﬀerent social roles(Zhu, Woo, Porter & Brzezinski, 2013). Because they allows people involve themselves in stable relationships and acceptsocial responsibilities . Having social relationships is a necessary condition and in turn, a major source of subjective well-being  (Van der Horst & Coﬀe, 2012). Psychological research has taken a diﬀerent approach to the study of the relationshipbetween social interactions and well-being, focusing largely on the study of perceived social support (Cohen, 2004).This research aims to study the relationship between perceived social support and subjective well-being of rural women invirtual social networks. Speciﬁcally , social support , as a concept, can be deﬁned as the feeling of being cared for by othersand get help from them, and the feeling of being part of a social support network (Liu and Yu, 2013: 675). On the other hand, subjective being (SWB) is a broad psychological phenomenon that includes the emotional responses of individuals,satisfaction in speciﬁc areas of life and global judgments of life satisfaction (Diener et al., 1999: 277). Studies show thepositive inﬂuence of perceived social support on subjective well-being (Gülaçti, 2010, Lavasani, Borhanzadeh, Afzali &Hejazi, 2011, Liu & Yu, 2013, Van der Horst & Coﬀe, 2012). Our study aims at conﬁrming these relationships from astructural equation model that explains the assumptions made for each dimension of the considered concepts in the study ofdigital inclusión of rural women in virtual social networks, that is "perceived social support " and "subjective well-being".MethodWe have surveyed 478 women from rural areas of Andalusia (Southern Spain) aged between 18 and 65 years (mean age36.89). We applied a stratiﬁed sampling by quotas, considering the age and educational level. Most women surveyed live infamilies, have a secondary education or university and have paid employment.The questionnaire used includes: a) Sociodemographic and studies with questions about age, marital status, number ofchildren, employment status, level of studies; b) a scale for Perceived Social Support which is composed of 12 itemsmeasuring emotional support, instrumental and relational perceive women in their social network with are response rangefrom 0 (none) to 4 (completely) and c) to measure subjective well-being we use a scale that consists of 15 items andparticipants are asked to rate how strongly they agree with each statement. All items in the questionnaire are on a 5-pointLikert scale ranging from 0 = “strongly disagree” to 4= “strongly agree”. This scale includes three components:“Satisfaction with relationships” (items from 1 to 5), “Satisfaction with the self (projected identity)” (items from 6 to 10) and“vital satisfaction with the virtual social networks” (items from 16 to 20).We applied descriptive analysis techniques and ANOVAs with the SPSS/PC+ (version 18 for Windows) and we conducted astructural equation model with SIMART.PLS (version2.0) to test a predictive model between perceived social support andsubjective well-being of women in virtual social networks.Expected OutcomesAs a result of the study, we obtain a structural equation model which conﬁrms that perceived social support positivelyinﬂuences the subjective well-being, showing that the satisfaction with the relationships is the dimension of subjetive well-being on which most directly aﬀects. We can advance that “perceived social support” was a signiﬁcant predictor ofsatisfaction with relationships (β=0,706, ƿ˂0,001, R2= 0.498). “Satisfaction with online relationship” was a signiﬁcantpredictor of “satisfaction with the self (projected identity)” (β=0,956, ƿ˂0,001, R2= 0.854) and of “vital satisfaction” in thevirtual social networks (β=0,832, ƿ˂0,001, R2= 0,751). The results obtained allow us to develop plans and make decisionson how to support women in rural areas to conduct a more proﬁtable use of their interactions in social networks and theirsubjective well-being.Rural women's perceived social support in social networks has been shown as a signiﬁcant factor for their digital inclusion(Rebollo, Buzon, Garcia & Rodriguez, 2013; Rebollo & Vico, 2014 work in progress). This work also demonstrates its inﬂuenceon subjective well-being of women in rural areas, which may help guide future strategies and lines of action in the context ofdigital inclusion policies.ReferencesCastaño, C., Martin, J. & Vázquez, S. (2008). La e-inclusión y el bienestar social: una perspectiva de género. EconomíaIndustrial, 367, 139-152.Cohen, S. (2004).Social relationships and health.American Psychologist, (59), 676–684.Diener, E.; Suh, E. M.; Lucas, R. E. y Smith, H. L. (1999).Subjective well-being. Three decades of progress. PsychologicalBulletin. Vol. 125, N° 2, 276 – 302DiMaggio, P., Hargittai, E., Celeste, C., & Shafer, S. (2004). Digital inequality: From unequal access to diﬀerentiated use. In K.Neckerman (Ed.), Social Inequality. (pp.355-400). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Fuente, A., Herrero, J. & Gracia, E. (2010). Internet y apoyo social: sociabilidad online y ajuste psicosocial en la sociedad dela información. Acción Psicológica, 7 (1), 9-15.Gülaçti, F. (2010).The eﬀect of perceived social support on subjective well-being.Procedia. Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2,3844–3849.Lavasani, M.A., Borhanzadeh, S., Afzali, L. y Hejazi, E. (2011). The relationship between perceived parenting styles, socialsupportwith psychological well-being. Procedia. Social and Behavioral Sciences, 15, 1852–1856.Liu, Ch.Y. & Yu, Ch.P. (2013). Can Facebook use induce well-being? Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social networking, 16(9),674-678.Van der Horst, M. &Coﬀe, H. (2012) How Friendship Network Characteristics Inﬂuence.Subjective Well-Being. SocialIndicators Research, 107, 509–529.Zhu, X., Woo, S.E., Porter, C. & Brzezinski, M. (2013). Pathways to happiness: From personality to social networks andperceived support. Social Networks, 35 382– 393.Author InformationRocío Jiménez Cortés (presenting)Universidad de SevillaMétodos de Investigación en Educación y Diagnóstico en EducaciónSevillaMaria de los Angeles Rebollo-CatalanUniversity of SevilleSchool of EducationSevillaRafael García-PérezUniversidad de SevillaMétodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en EducaciónSevilla

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