Empirical Analysis on Influence Mechanism of Cohesiveness and Collective Efficacy of Virtual Community Based on Triadic Reciprocal Determinism

The virtual community has become a new life style as for human,but the public's acceptance is relatively low at present.So the research about the mechanism of the influence on the cohesiveness and the collective efficiency in virtual community has an important theoretical value and practical value.In the paper,the key variables that affect virtual community cohesiveness are extracted from two aspects—self-perception of community members and community environment,and the influence mechanism model of virtual community cohesiveness and community collective efficiency is established based on Triadic Reciprocal Determinism.By means of the questionnaire on the community members and the empirical analysis,the key factors influencing cohesiveness of virtual community are brought up,as well as the mechanism that the four dimensions of cohesiveness work,on collective efficiency.According to the results,it is practically meaningful that the problems and insufficiency in the operation of existing virtual community are discovered,which guides the operating managers of the virtual community to formulate operation policy of the virtual community for operating managers to develop strategies.

Community Crime Prevention Initiatives, Collective Efficacy, and Criminal Investigations

While criminal investigations are usually conducted after the crime has been committed, these investigations can benefit from community crime prevention initiatives. The use of citizen volunteers, citizen awareness campaigns, community-driven research, and programs that facilitate effective police-community relations can aid the investigator in collecting testimony that might otherwise go unreported. Specific examples of how cases have been cleared due to the beneficial inclusion of citizen satisfaction research, crime prevention resources, and volunteer personnel demonstrate how community, crime prevention, and investigation of criminal behavior can be interlinked. The theme of this paper rests on the notion that the community＇s sense of collective efficacy, crime prevention efforts, and criminal investigation processes are not mutually exclusive, but instead should be considered as related aspects of the crime-fighting spectrum.

Understanding Antecedents of Civic Engagement in the Age of Social Media:From the Perspective of Efficacy Beliefs

This study examines three efficacy beliefs-political self-efficacy,political collective efficacy,and knowledge sharing efficacy-as antecedents of social media use and civic engagement.Employing more than one thousand samples in Singapore,we empirically test(a)a conceptual framework that can provide an understanding of the relationship between the three types of efficacy and civic engagement and(b)the underlying mechanism through which the three types of efficacy beliefs affect civic engagement via social media.The findings suggest that knowledge sharing efficacy was found to play an important role in mediating the relationships between social media use and political self-efficacy,political collective efficacy,respectively,which,in turn,influences the social media use.