Understanding students’ reasons and gender differences in adding faculty as Facebook friends

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Highlights：

• Personal reasons were the main motivating forces to be a friend of a professor.

• The least important reasons for being a Facebook friend with a professor were procedural reasons.

• Male students are more likely to be friends with their professors for clarification and efficiency reasons.

摘要

•Personal reasons were the main motivating forces to be a friend of a professor.•The least important reasons for being a Facebook friend with a professor were procedural reasons.•Male students are more likely to be friends with their professors for clarification and efficiency reasons.

论文关键词：Teacher–student interaction,Facebook,Social networking sites,Education

论文评审过程：Received 30 December 2014, Revised 18 June 2015, Accepted 24 June 2015, Available online 4 July 2015, Version of Record 4 July 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.043