Emotions of need for relationship and personal reasons when sharing information among adolescents

Abstract

The information behavior implies aspects of collaboration, since most of the behaviors applied in the search and use of information processes are executed in interaction with other people. New approaches address "collaborative information behavior", that is, the behavior of the use of information that is expressly directed at the use of another person or persons belonging to an actor's personal networks. It is an individual and group conduct of search, retrieval and use of information, which may include information found accidentally, expressly directed to the benefit of other people. In the research conducted, we investigated the differences between two groups of adolescents of different educational levels (n: 94), when they share information, and the influence in this behavior of the emotions and feelings of need for relationship and personal motives. We expose two practical cases to the participants that consist of looking for information, that they want, about leisure content, and another about educational content, to share them once they are located through their mobile devices. Then they responded to a survey, recording their observations of what happened when sharing the contents. The results obtained indicate that, according to the academic level, young people use different means when disseminating information. There are also different types of relationship emotions and personal motives as factors that are influential when sharing information.