Temporal Impacts of Problematic Social Media Content on Perceived Employee Hirability

Figures & data

Figure 1. Sample Stimulus Tweet, Presenting Far Distant (i.e., 5 Years Prior) Social Media Faux Pas.

Table 1. Moderated moderation analysis for variables predicting perceived employability and person-job Fit.

	Employability		Person-Job Fit
Predictor	b	se	b	se
Problematic Social Media Content^a (PC)	−1.29	1.66	−4.10^†	1.55
Temporality of Post^b (T)	−.44	.60	−.53	.56
Incrementalism (I)	−.18	.26	−.19	.24
PC × T	.37	.81	1.18*	.75
PC × I	.05	.37	.83*	.34
T × I	.10	.13	.15	.13
PC × T × I	−.04	.18	−.44^†	.17
Constant	6.15^‡	1.17	6.03^‡	1.09
F (df)	2.80^† (7, 211)		4.06^‡ (7, 211)
R^2	.09		.12

Notes: Unstandardized regression coefficients are reported.

*p < .05, ^†p < .01, ^‡p < .001.

^aReference category was the presence of a social media faux pas..

^bRecent (1 week) = 1, moderately distant (2 years) = 2, and far distant (5 years) = 3.

Figure 2. Results of hypothesized relationships.

Figure 3. Simple Moderation Effect of Temporality of Social Media Faux Pas on Employers’ Perceptions of Applicant’s Person-Job Fit.

Table 2. Tests of Presence of Problematic Social Media Content × Time Since Post Interaction at Levels of Incrementalism.

	Employability		Person-Job Fit
Level of Incrementalism	Effect	F	Effect	F
Low (i.e., Entitivist; −1SD = 3.39)	.25	.90	.36	2.24
Medium (M = 4.41)	.21	1.22	−.09	.27
High (i.e., Incrementalist; +1SD = 5.42)	.17	.40	−.54	4.86*

Notes: Unstandardized regression coefficients are reported.

*p < .05, ^†p < .01, ^‡p < .001.

Figure 4. Visualizing Three-Way Interaction among Presence of a Social Media Faux Pas, Time Since the Faux Pas was Posted, and Recruiter’s Incrementalism.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available online via the repository listed at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/H8UT4 and https://osf.io/h8ut4/?view_only=383ee28495a8440c88df95d71a61175e.