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Altruism and social media use competency predict both the willingness and actual participation in correcting misinformation on social media across UK and Arab cultures, while users generally prefer indirect communication styles and exhibit an intention-behavior gap. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how psychological traits, social media competency, communication style, and cultural contexts influence engagement in correcting social media misinformation.

August 22, 2026SN Computer ScienceOpen Access

What Affects Engagement in User Correction of Misinformation: The Role of Personality Factors, Communication Style, and Social Relationships

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MNMuaadh NomanHamad bin Khalifa University FAFiroj AlamQatar Airways (Qatar)RARaian AliHamad bin Khalifa University

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Survey study reveals psychological predictors of online misinformation correction across cultural groups, highlighting the key roles of altruism and digital competency.

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To examine how psychological traits, social media competency, communication style, and cultural contexts influence engagement in correcting social media misinformation.
Administered an online vignette-supplemented survey to N=686 participants, comprising 367 British and 319 Arab Peninsula residents.
Evaluated the effects of altruism, empathy, self-esteem, digital competency, and relational variables (gender similarity, social status, social distance) on correction engagement.
Analyzed predictors of correction willingness, actual behavior, and communication style preferences using multivariate multiple regression.
Altruism and social media use competency predicted both willingness and actual correction behavior in both cohorts, whereas self-esteem was predictive only in the UK cohort.
Empathy was not a significant predictor of correction in either group, and both groups displayed an intention–behaviour gap along with an overall preference for indirect communication.
Altruism consistently predicted style preferences across relational contexts in both groups, while digital competency primarily directed style choices across gender and status variations in the Arab sample.

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Noman et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a89600eca7ade938187f107 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-026-05260-6

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Survey study reveals psychological predictors of online misinformation correction across cultural groups, highlighting the key roles of altruism and digital competency.

What Affects Engagement in User Correction of Misinformation: The Role of Personality Factors, Communication Style, and Social Relationships

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What Affects Engagement in User Correction of Misinformation: The Role of Personality Factors, Communication Style, and Social Relationships

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