Understanding the Complexity of Business Information Dissemination in Social Media: A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence from China

Table 4

Results of the meta-analysis.

Variable		K	N	Effect size and 95% CI			Two-tailed test
				Point estimation	Lower	Upper	Z value	value
H1	Authority	11	14721	0.484	0.243	0.624	3.978	≤0.001
H2	Reliability	2	27912	0.454	0.165	0.711	2.865	0.002
H3	Quality of information form	3	11173	0.472	0.150	0.553	2.324	≤0.001
H4	Quality of information editing	4	1037	0.537	0.135	0.787	2.536	≤0.001
H5	Quality of information utility	8	2675	0.459	0.070	0.727	2.281	0.003
H6	Event attention preference	2	840	0.483	0.075	0.752	2.288	0.002
H7	Information environment heat	3	678	0.415	−0.177	0.923	1.569	0.117