Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination |
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| Institution: | 1. Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, 220 Wehner, 4122 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA;2. Farmer School of Business, Miami University, 800 East High St, Room 3046, Oxford, OH 45056, USA;3. Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, 10 Garrison Avenue, Durham, NH 03824, USA;1. Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan;2. Department of Organization, Work and Technology, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, United Kingdom;1. Northeastern University, 215F Renaissance Park, Boston, MA 02115, USA;2. Northeastern University, 309 Hayden Hall, Boston, MA 02115, USA;1. University of Essex Business School, University of Essex, Southend on Sea, SS1 1LW Essex, United Kingdom;2. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, Building D1, 1020 Vienna, Austria;1. Robert W. Plaster School of Business, Missouri Southern State University, USA;2. DeVille School of Business, Walsh University, 2020 East Maple, North Canton, OH 44720, USA;3. School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint, 303 E. Kearsley Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA;1. School of Management, Politecnico Milano, Milan, Italy;2. Department of Business Administration, The Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Social media companies have become some of the most prominent multinational enterprises over the last few decades. In response to calls in the international business literature for a greater understanding of the externalities of multinational enterprises' activities, we employ the micro-macro level theory of purposeful group formation within society and the affordance-based framework to understand the association between the use of three popular global social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and the prevalence of anxiety at the country-level while accounting for heterogeneity in country institutional environments, using a 30-country, eleven-year, unbalanced panel dataset. We further explore whether informal institutional elements (i.e., national culture) are associated with the prevalence of anxiety and/or moderate the association between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety. Our findings indicate that the use of all three social media platforms, when considered as a percentage of the population using each platform, are negatively associated with the prevalence of anxiety in a country, with Twitter having the strongest association. We also find that the informal institutional elements have important moderating effects when considering the influence of the use of social media on the prevalence of anxiety across countries. |
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| Keywords: | Social media Prevalence of anxiety Institutional economics Business externalities Society |
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