Open AccessMotives and Consequences of Social Network Sites: Teachers in Greece A Case Study
Author(s) -
Vasileios Gougas,
Lucia Malinova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of management and information technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2278-5612
DOI - 10.24297/ijmit.v16i.8943
Subject(s) - escapism , psychology , sample (material) , selfishness , procrastination , social psychology , cronbach's alpha , developmental psychology , psychometrics , chemistry , chromatography
the last fifteen years and especially during the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus, there have been an intense In use of Social Network Sites (SNS) by all age, social and professional groups. Logically, that teacher could not escape from this trend. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the hedonic use, utilitarian use, socializing, procrastination, job escapism, work productivity of the specific professional team from the use of SNS. For this reason, a questionnaire consisting of 30 questions was created which was given to a sample of 351 teachers (N=351, Cronbach’s alpha=0.90) in Greece. The results showed that the strongest motivation for the use of SNS is job escapism. It became apparent that the negative effects are associated with escapism and socializing, while hedonic use seems to be more linked with procrastination.