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This study examines the relationship between types of social capital and the use of Facebook to share personal news. This relationship is significant because, as the research shows, there is a link between personal news sharing and personal self-esteem and life satisfaction. The quantitative study comprised a survey of 415 students at Yarmouk University and Amman University, Jordan, and was based on a theoretical model that employed structural equation modeling for measuring relations and correlations between variables and the effects of news sharing in promoting student social capital. The results showed a positive relationship between the intensity of news sharing using Facebook and social capital, bridging social capital, and self-esteem. The strongest relationship was with self-esteem; however, the results showed no significant relationship between social capital and the degree of personal life satisfaction.
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Habes, M., Alghizzawi, M., Salloum, S.A., Mhamdi, C. (2021). Effects of Facebook Personal News Sharing on Building Social Capital in Jordanian Universities. In: Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K., Hassanien, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Intelligent Systems and Smart Applications. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47411-9_35
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