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Table 4 Scores for each variable for different usage patterns

From: Relationship between university students’ emotional expression on tweets and subjective well-being: Considering the effects of their self-presentation and online communication skills

Items

Overall

Pattern 2

Pattern 4

Pattern 7

F-statistics

Generalized Trust

20.23

20.26

19.85

20.43

.829

Self-indeterminate factor

3.53

3.53

3.46

3.57

.63

Self-establishment factor

3.69

3.50

3.60

3.78

3.49 *

Self-independent factor

2.99

3.16

2.99

2.95

1.83

Self-variable factor

3.73

3.73

3.58

3.80

1.82

Rejection avoidance factor

2.86

2.94

2.58

2.99

7.59 ***

Praise acquisition factor

3.12

3.01

2.90

3.27

7.32 ***

Self-appeal factor

3.70

3.59

3.67

3.75

1.00

Topic avoidance factor

3.90

3.76

3.88

3.95

1.26

Online communication skills

51.24

51.37

48.19

52.83

11.62 ***

Twitter usage period (months)

44.18

52.61

41.49

43.51

4.21 *

Twitter accounts

2.77

3.64

2.32

2.77

13.95 ***

Twitter accounts followed

544.53

1,003.03

472.11

438.98

14.36 ***

Twitter accounts of followers

477.06

911.61

338.12

442.61

13.09 ***

Subjective well-being

47.82

43.89

45.66

49.94

12.13 ***

  1. (1) Overall is the average of three groups of participants (n = 501). Pattern 2 refers to exclusively Twitter users (n = 70); Pattern 4 refers to people who use Twitter and LINE (n = 149); and Pattern 7 refers to people who use Twitter, LINE, and Instagram (n = 282)
  2. (2) ***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05