A Multidimensional Model for the Bridging Social Capital as Perceived by University Students on Facebook

Alexandru Balog () and Costin Pribeanu ()
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Alexandru Balog: National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics
Costin Pribeanu: National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics

ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 2017, vol. 51, issue 4, 189-206

Abstract: The increasing popularity of Facebook among university students stimulates the study of social networking websites and associated social phenomena. As social networking websites are able to provide valuable resources for students there is an increasing interest in measuring the social capital that is formed and developed in university contexts. This paper presents an empirical validation of a multidimensional model for the bridging social capital that has been conceptualized as a global factor with three dimensions: outward looking, broader group, and meeting new people. The model has been tested and crossvalidated using two samples collected from two Romanian universities. The results show that the multidimensional model is a better conceptualization having a higher explanatory power than the unidimensional model. An analysis of invariance shows that the proposed scale is equivalent across university profiles thus enabling group comparisons.

Keywords: social capital; bridging social capital; multidimensional model; Facebook; Structural Equation Modeling; Multi-group CFA. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D80 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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