The paper reports on factors that drive students’ perceived self-efficacy in information seeking practices through Facebook. The quantitative study employed random sampling of postgraduate students in a higher learning institution. A total of 354 responses were gathered through a self-reported survey. The findings showed four factors, namely, past performance, other’s experience, verbal persuasion and psychological state, have statistically significant correlations with students’ perceived self-efficacy in information seeking practices through Facebook. Past performance was found to be the most influential factor followed by other’s experience. Verbal persuasion and psychological states were the least influential factor. The outcome of the study contributes to the existing literature particularly on the self-efficacy standpoint in social networking sites (SNS) platform. In addition, the findings are relevant to the field of information seeking behaviour especially in providing evidence that people are searching information using Facebook

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通过 Facebook 信息寻求实践中感知精灵效能的决定因素

该论文报告了在通过 Facebook 进行信息搜索实践中驱动学生自我效能感的因素。定量研究采用随机抽样的方式对一所高等教育机构的研究生进行抽样。通过自我报告的调查共收集到 354 份回复。研究结果显示，过去的表现、他人的经历、口头说服和心理状态四个因素与学生在通过 Facebook 信息搜索实践中感知到的自我效能有统计学上的显着相关性。过去的表现被认为是最有影响力的因素，其次是其他人的经验。口头说服和心理状态是影响最小的因素。该研究的结果有助于现有文献，特别是在社交网站 (SNS) 平台中的自我效能观点方面。此外，这些发现与信息搜索行为领域相关，尤其是提供证据表明人们正在使用 Facebook 搜索信息