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- Title
Factors Influencing Facebook Usage and Facebook Addictive Tendency in University Students: The Role of Online Psychological Privacy and Facebook Usage Motivation.
- Authors
Hong, Fu ‐ Yuan; Chiu, Su ‐ Lin
- Abstract
There are few studies analysing the influence of personal traits and motivation factors on Facebook usage and Facebook addictive tendency as seen in university students. In this study, 225 Taiwanese university students completed a questionnaire to determine their online psychological privacy scale, Facebook usage motivation scale, Facebook usage scale and Facebook addictive tendency scale, in order to evaluate the items that can be conceptualized as the effect of university students' online psychological privacy personal trait and motive factors, and Facebook usage motivation with respect to Facebook usage and Facebook addictive tendency. The study found that a desire for more online psychological privacy correlates with a stronger motivation to use Facebook and more Facebook usage behaviour among university students who may become high ‐ risk groups for Facebook addictive tendency. The study found that a desire for or an acceptance of a lower online psychological privacy correlates with a stronger motivation to use Facebook among university students who may have more Facebook usage behaviour. This study can help understand university students' Facebook usage and Facebook addictive tendency and provide feature indicators for those who may become high ‐ risk groups for Facebook addictive tendency. Finally, this study conducts discussion and proposes relevant suggestions for future study. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; CHI-squared test; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; STATISTICAL correlation; LONGITUDINAL method; MEDICAL ethics; MOTIVATION (Psychology); PRIVACY; PROBABILITY theory; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; SOCIAL networks; MATHEMATICAL variables; INTERNET addiction; PILOT projects; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 2016, Vol 32, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
1532-3005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/smi.2585