title: Understanding the psychological motives behind microblogging.
abstract: This research aims to understand the psychological motives behind microblogging. We conducted two studies to investigate if social exclusion and existential anxiety would lead to a high tendency to microblog. Our results show that participants did not use microblogging to satisfy their needs for social connection and affiliation, but highly extraverted participants did use it to relieve their existential anxiety.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. linqiu@ntu.edu.sg
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Angela K-y
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Jun Hao
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Qi Min
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: Kevin Joseph
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Francis
authors.forename: Pei Fen
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Chua
mesh_terms: D057218:Blogging; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010551:Personality; D012934:Social Isolation