TY - JOUR
T1 - Exposing one's identity: Social judgments of colleagues' traits can influence employees' Facebook boundary management
AU - van Prooijen, A.M.
AU - Ranzini, G.
AU - Bartels, J.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Research has shown that the willingness to interact with colleagues in offline contexts mostly depends on morality traits. However, little is known about how social judgments of traits can influence online intentions to interact with colleagues. Specifically, we investigated the effects of colleagues' morality, sociability, and competence traits on employees' boundary management on Facebook. An experiment (N = 289) was conducted using a (morality: high vs low) by 2 (sociability: high vs low) by 2 (competence: high vs low) design. Results revealed that employees' preference to separate (vs. integrate) professional and private contacts on Facebook was determined by both morality and sociability traits, whereas no effects of competence traits were found.
AB - Research has shown that the willingness to interact with colleagues in offline contexts mostly depends on morality traits. However, little is known about how social judgments of traits can influence online intentions to interact with colleagues. Specifically, we investigated the effects of colleagues' morality, sociability, and competence traits on employees' boundary management on Facebook. An experiment (N = 289) was conducted using a (morality: high vs low) by 2 (sociability: high vs low) by 2 (competence: high vs low) design. Results revealed that employees' preference to separate (vs. integrate) professional and private contacts on Facebook was determined by both morality and sociability traits, whereas no effects of competence traits were found.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.002
M3 - Article
VL - 78
SP - 215
EP - 222
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
SN - 0747-5632
IS - January
ER -