What makes users share content on facebook? Compatibility among psychological incentive, social capital focus, and content type

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Highlights:

• Psychological incentives influence message sharing intention in social network.

• Communal incentive motivates sharing of lifestyle affairs and personal opinions.

• Self-interest incentive helps to spread commercial messages and lifestyle affairs.

• Focus on bridging social capital might inhibit self-interest incentive.

• Messages designed with compatible incentives and focuses would propagate faster.

摘要

•Psychological incentives influence message sharing intention in social network.•Communal incentive motivates sharing of lifestyle affairs and personal opinions.•Self-interest incentive helps to spread commercial messages and lifestyle affairs.•Focus on bridging social capital might inhibit self-interest incentive.•Messages designed with compatible incentives and focuses would propagate faster.

论文关键词:Facebook,Social media,Psychological incentive,Online content,Social capital

论文评审过程:Received 30 November 2015, Revised 4 October 2016, Accepted 12 October 2016, Available online 25 October 2016, Version of Record 25 October 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.10.010