2023 ASIS&T Mid-Year Conference
Published March 24, 2023 | Version v1
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Moroccan Jews and Muslims Discussing Online Their Mutual Heritage: The Moderation Role of Nostalgia on Well-Being and Social Network Participation

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Increasingly, users of social networks engage in multicultural discussions involving nostalgia for a shared past.  The current study continues the exploration of the impact of nostalgia and social network participation among Moroccan Jewish and Muslim online community users dealing with their cultural heritage. The relationship between nostalgia and well-being has been extensively discussed, but as far as we know, little research is exploring nostalgia as a moderator of social network discussions. In the current study, we hypothesize that mood at nostalgic moments moderates the dealing with Morocco and multicultural communities from June 2019 to February 2020. Four questionnaires were used in the study: demographics, social network participation, nostalgia mood, and well-being. As a result, 96 Jews and Muslims born in Morocco answered the questionnaires. Our results confirm that nostalgia contributed significantly to well-being and that among participants with a high level of nostalgia, a higher level of well-being contributes to a higher level of social network participation. These findings are important as a positive effect of the contribution to social networks could lead to a higher time spent on social networks, which should be investigated in further research. This article's dataset will be published in an online repository.

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DATA This article's dataset is available in the Mendeley Data repository: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/3vx6knxg3t doi: 10.17632/3vx6knxg3t.1

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