Social media usage and work values: The example of Facebook in Taiwan

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-200

  Lin, Julia Ying Chao ^a   Le, Angelina Nhat Hanh ^b   Khalil, Shadab ^b   Cheng, Julian Ming Sung ^b  

^a TAINAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Facebook; Social media; Social networking; Work values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863379783     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.2.195     Document Type: Article

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