Factors influencing people’s participation in home garden project during covid-19 pandemic: A review

The COVID-19outbreak has caused people to live in anxiety and fear This eing implemented as a preventive measure to halt the COVID-19pandemic People are forced to stay at home, which causes them stress and boredom As a result, most people turned to social mediaplatforms and use them actively One of the current trends during MCO is that people learn how to grow plants in the home garden project This activity is more exciting with the involvement and of help of social media platformssuch as Facebook However, to date, only few past studies have discussed the factors influencing social media users’ behaviour, mainly Facebook, to involve with the home garden project during MCO Therefore, this study explored the behavioural intention to use Facebookas a platform to share the information regarding home garden project during MCO This study applied the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, which used the original model, focusing on performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating condition Then, two new factors, namely perceived enjoyment and cognitive gratification, were integrated to predict primary factors of influencing Facebook user’s behaviour to involve with the home garden project during MCO The research can be used as a guideline to help develop better apps in order to cultivate home garden projects © 2020, World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering All rights reserved