Investigating dual effects of social networking sites
: A. K. M. Najmul Islam, Matti Mäntymäki, Aaron W. Baur, Markus Bick
: Salah A. Al-Sharhan, Antonis C. Simintiras, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Marijn Janssen, Matti Mäntymäki, Luay Tahat, Issam Moughrabi, Taher M. Ali, Nripendra P. Rana
: Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society
Publisher: Springer Verlag
: 2018
: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era. I3E 2018
: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
: 11195
: 81
: 101
: 978-3-030-02130-6
: 978-3-030-02131-3
: 0302-9743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02131-3_10
This paper investigates the dual effects (i.e. benefits and dangers) of a social networking site (SNS). Our dependent variables are subjective vitality and addiction. We employ self-determination theory (SDT), specifically the concepts of autonomous and controlled motivation and hypothesize that social enhancement and enjoyment represent autonomous motivation and contributes to subjective vitality while voyeurism and exhibitionism represent controlled motivation and contribute to SNS addiction. We test our hypotheses with data from 289 student Facebook users using Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results suggest that both social enhancement and enjoyment predict subjective vitality. In contrast, exhibitionism is the sole predictor of SNS addiction while voyeurism has no effect.
