Cultural differences and social support seeking on Facebook

• Main Author: Fong, Natasha Laura Rui Shan
• Other Authors: Qiu Lin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60474
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Research on social support has uncovered cultural differences in social support seeking between Asian and American groups (Taylor et al., 2004). However, direct links to underlying assumptions of independent and interdependent self-construal have not been made. This paper will extend previous findin...