EXPLORING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN POLICE CADETS
Keywords:
Xuexi Qiangguo, Perceived stress, Job value, Knowledge sharingAbstract
China’s social media development is attracting scholars to shift their research topics from international to domestic. Researchers bring negative comments on platforms such as "Xuexi Qiangguo". Our study focuses on general situation of young college students using of social media, as well as aim to understand perceived stress, job values and knowledge sharing. We selected senior cadets of police college, who are young undergraduate students, and also have an important mission of political capacity building. Based on the previous questionnaire and statistic methods, our research found that students using "Xuexi Qiangguo" social media app more correlated to less stress, higher commitment to police work, and more knowledge sharing in prosocial, self-efficacy and real-world behaviors. Our research shows high correlation between using of the "Xuexi Qiangguo" and better students. It also provides frameworks for exploring the app's education function to young students.References
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