RSCH FPX7860 Assessment 2 Research Concept Matrix

(Dantas et al., 2022)

Dantas et al. (2022)

This study is intended to explore.

How work- and social-related responses to the performance of employees in a company.

Their use of the media, including their performance. 

The use of social media at the workplace is a subject of an ongoing debate, and its effect on the performance of employees. Some organizations seem to benefit from social media through knowledge management, customer engagement, and global outreach, while others restrict its use, fearing reduced productivity and commitment. However, in other places, employees worry about jeopardizing their jobs due to perceived inefficiency linked to social media use. Previous research underscores the need to explore the relationship between social media motivations and work performance, especially concerning extra-role behaviors, to better understand its implications on organizational outcomes.

Limitations: The research had shortcomings, as it failed to collect data and compare developed and underdeveloped nations, and even between cultures. The sample doesn’t reflect the whole population of all organizations. Self-reported work performance data might overestimate the extent of work being done by employees.

The study found that social media usage for work and social purposes increases employee involvement in tasks beyond the job description, meaning organizations can increase performance by encouraging extra-role behaviors such as client outreach through social media.

Practical Implications: Organizations should consider positive elements of social media beyond just the negative ones. 

IRB permission of the University of Punjab in connection with the Declaration of Helsinki; informed consent signed; no external funding; no interest.

Further studies might focus on how social media is used in the long run (longitudinally) to address the overestimation of employee productivity. Examining additional variables in the context of social media usage, such as job satisfaction, job commitment, and organizational commitment, would contribute to the burgeoning research on social media usage at work.

(Chen et al., 2025)

“We take a three-step approach to identifying strategies to facilitate substance use recovery: (1) characterizing the extent to which stages of change are expressed in social media data, (2) identifying BCTs used by persons at different stages of change, and (3) exploring the role that stigma plays in recovery journeys.”

Individuals with SUD tend to be stigmatized, making them reluctant to seek or become involved with treatment. Social media gives an insight into how people account for their recovery process, but there is a lack of understanding about how stages of change, behavior change techniques, and stigma emerge within these accounts.

The results were limited to Reddit entries in certain forums, and these may not generalize to all groups or sites. Self-reported entries may introduce incomplete information or bias. Also, examination of stories posted online cannot verify demographic or clinical profiles of posters.

Utilized publicly available Reddit threads.

– Extracted identifying information for privacy protection.

– Analyzed data at the aggregate level to reduce risk to individual posters.

– Responsible reporting of findings without stigmatizing language.

It is suggested by researchers that work be taken to other settings and groups, examining stigma reduction approaches in online interventions, and assessing whether certain BCTs can be applied in online recovery interventions. Future research might also confirm findings with clinical samples and longitudinal data.

 (Webster & Ryan, 2023)

“This study explores the role of family-based and professional social media proxies by considering how older adults access proxy support in local communities within the United Kingdom. Through this work, we will begin to establish the proxy practices undertaken in the support and management of social media accounts by both those who provide and receive proxy support.”

Older people have difficulty using social media on their own because of technical or accessibility issues. The processes, termed “proxy” relationships, through which others (e.g., family, friends) support them are relatively underresearched, leaving a gap in knowledge about how older people use the internet.

Limitations: The research is exploratory, grounded in qualitative evidence (interviews, diaries, focus groups) from a small participant sample; conclusions will not generalize far across contexts or cultures. Implications: Findings highlight the key contribution of proxies to older adults’ engagement with digital forms, implying interventions and research should take support networks into account when promoting social media inclusivity.

– The research maintains participant confidentiality and anonymity.

– Ethical clearance or compliance with ethical guidelines for human subjects research (assumed in normal academic practice).

– Participants willingly participated (inferred from qualitative approach).

– Data (interviews, diaries, focus groups) were employed sensitively and thematically.

The authors recommend more in-depth, more comprehensive studies of social media proxy roles as digital platform use increases across all age groups. Future research could investigate various contexts, measure proxy support patterns, and explore how to develop interventions or tools that allow older adults’ autonomy while tapping into proxy support

 (Angelini et al., 2024)

“To contribute to filling this gap, the current study aims to investigate possible associations between the perceived context of social media and adolescents’ perceived quality of their friendship relations.

Teenagers’ social media activities with peers, particularly how they see social media functionalities and peer norms, are less understood in relation to their effects on friendship quality. The study investigates how certain features of certain platforms, active social media use, and perceived norms are related to teenagers’ feelings of validation, intimacy, and companionship with peers.

The cross-sectional design prohibits inferences regarding causality or directionality of associations. Dependence on self-report measures and low numbers of items per construct could introduce error in measurement; perceived peer behavior might not correspond to actual behavior.

The recently created measures (e.g., perceived social media features) need to be further validated.

Implications: Inform educational and preventive interventions in schools with the goal of promoting healthy social media use and quality friendship.

Promote group discussions between teenagers about norms and platform attributes (e.g., availability, visualness) to promote relational well-being.

Increase awareness regarding the influence of social media design on peer interactions and related connections.

Ethical approval was received from the University of Padova’s Ethics Committee for Psychological Research (protocol no. 4170).

Informed consent (from parents or participants over 18 years of age) was obtained; anonymity and confidentiality were ensured.

Allow participants to drop out freely without penalty; study done according to local laws and institutional practice.

Use longitudinal or dyadic (friend-pairs) designs to examine causality and reciprocity. Use objective behavioral information (e.g., true social media activity logs) to make more precise measurements. Increase cultural and demographic diversity in samples, test more online behaviors and negative dimensions of friendship (e.g., conflict, victimization).

 (Zhao & Yu, 2023)

We examined whether social media anxiety mediates the link between blurring boundary online and work engagement. From a relational perspective, we also investigated how perceived leader support might moderate this mediated relationship.

Workers more and more often have boundaries blurred between their work and personal lives by social media usage. This may generate psychological stress and have a negative impact on work engagement. Yet the particular mechanisms with which social media anxiety is involved and how, for instance, perceived leader support affects it, are still unclear.

Limitations: The data used for this study come from an online survey based on self-reports and thus possibly suffer from bias (e.g., social desirability). A cross-sectional design does not allow conclusions regarding causality. The sample only includes 212 full-time employees, which could restrict generalizability to other populations or environments. Implications: Findings indicate that boundary blurring enhances social media anxiety, which subsequently reduces work engagement, especially when employees experience low leader support. These results provide pragmatic recommendations for organizations to coordinate social media use, facilitate boundary setting, and establish supportive leadership to reduce negative impacts on employee engagement.

Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: The authors confirm that they have no conflicts of interest.

The authors probably recommend investigating longitudinal designs to determine causality, employing diverse or bigger samples in order to enhance generalizability, investigating other mediators or moderators (e.g., organizational culture, personal coping strategies), and testing pragmatic interventions that decrease social media anxiety or enhance leader support, although the abstract does not detail these. Reading the full paper would authenticate their specific recommendations.