The Influence of Group Psychology on Network Cluster Behavior: A
Moderated Mediation Model
Abstract
A questionnaire survey was conducted among 2137 college students from
more than 10 colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu
Province. The data were analyzed by correlation analysis and moderated
mediation model test. The results showed that group psychology such as
emotional infection, depersonalization, silent spiral, relative
deprivation, group polarization and action mobilization can positively
predict network cluster behavior; The action mobilization of opinion
leaders plays a mediating effect between emotional infection and network
cluster behavior; Group polarization plays a mediating effect between
the silent spiral and network cluster behavior; Group efficacy plays a
regulatory role in the latter half of the intermediary process of group
polarization affecting network cluster behavior.