The Effects of Interruptions Mediated by Social Media on Social Media Fatigue

• 1、Economy and Management School, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Beijing 100876

Abstract：Previous studies have proved that social media has a positive impact on people's work and life. It breaks through the limitation of time and space, brings convenience and flexibility to our life, and promotes knowledge sharing, interpersonal communication and information exchange. However, this feature of social media has also brought some disadvantages, among which the two-way interruption of work and life via social media has attracted more and more attention, but the relevant research is still insufficient. Based on this circumstance, according to the boundary theory and self depletion theory, this paper studies how the two-way interruption of work and life (work to life interruption, life to work interruption )via social media has a negative impact on employees' work and life. In this study, 572 employees from different industries around the country were investigated by questionnaire, and structural equation model was used for data analysis. The results show that work to life interruption and life to work interruption will lead to work-life conflict and life-work conflict respectively, which will have a negative impact on social media fatigue. Among them, life segmentation preference moderates the positive relationship between work-life conflict and social media fatigue.

Keywords： Business administration life to work interruption work to life interruption social media fatigue self depletion theory