TY  - JOUR
T1  - Teachers’ Engagement with Emotional Support on a Social Networking Site
AU - Rashid, Radzuwan Ab AU - Yunus, Kamariah 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 14
SP  - 3450
EP  - 3457
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.3450.3457
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.3450.3457
KW  - Emotional support
KW  -facebook timeline
KW  -Malaysia
KW  -english language teacher
KW  -social support
AB  - This study is part of a larger study investigating teachers’ co-construction of social support on a social networking site. It reports the participants’ views of the use of facebook postings to engage with emotional support. Four categories of viewsemerged from the analysis which are the ‘Avid (+AV)’, the ‘Analytic (+AC)’, the ‘Anxious (+AS)’ and the ‘Agnostic(-AC)’. The teachers with positive views (+AV, +AC, +AS) emphasize the affordances of facebook in coping with emotional turbulence in their professional lives whilst the teachers with negative views mainly worry about the unintended consequences that might arise when teachers seek emotional support on the site. This study concludes that teachers’ views of the use of timeline postings as a mechanism to seek emotional support are influenced by their level of their participation on facebook, such as whether they are active users, lurkers or non-users.
ER  -