Park, Chang Sup and Psychogios, Alexandros and Gruda, Dritjon and Ojo, Adegboyega
(2023)
Tweet you right back: Follower anxiety predicts leader anxiety in social media interactions during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
PLOS ONE, 18 (2).
e0279164.
ISSN 1932-6203
Abstract
Recent research has shown that organizational leaders’ tweets can influence employee anxiety. In this study, we turn the table and examine whether the same can be said about followers’ tweets. Based on emotional contagion and a dataset of 108 leaders and 178 followers across 50 organizations, we infer and track state- and trait-anxiety scores of participants over 316 days, including pre- and post the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and crisis. We show that although leaders traditionally possess greater authority and power than their followers, followers have the power to influence their leaders’ state anxiety. In addition, this influence is particularly strong in the case of less trait anxious leaders.
| Item Type: |
Article
|
| Keywords: |
Tweet; right back; Follower anxiety;
predicts; leader anxiety; social media;
interactions; SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
17623 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279164 |
| Depositing User: |
Jon Gruda
|
| Date Deposited: |
02 Oct 2023 13:34 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
PLOS ONE |
| Publisher: |
Public Library of Science |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
|
| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
here |
Repository Staff Only(login required)
 |
Item control page |
Downloads per month over past year
Origin of downloads
Altmetric
Altmetric