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The Role of Deficient Self-regulation in Facebook Habit Formation

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Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research (WSKS 2011)

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With the proliferation of new social media technologies (e.g. Facebook), there has been a rising concern over the problem of technology dependency. Recognizing that deficiency in self-regulation is a necessary condition for the dependency to take place, this study aims to examine the role of deficient self-regulation in habit formation in the context of online social networking sites (SNSs). The findings of an empirical study of 406 Facebook users indicate that deficient self-regulation plays a role in augmenting SNS users’ perceptions, which indirectly influences habit. Our theoretical model of habit formation explains 43.7% of the variance. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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  1. The American College of Greece, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Da Ruan

  3. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  4. University of Oviedo, Oviedo-Asturias, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  5. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García Peñalvo

  6. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Lazar Rusu

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Thadani, D. (2013). The Role of Deficient Self-regulation in Facebook Habit Formation. In: Lytras, M.D., Ruan, D., Tennyson, R.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., García Peñalvo, F.J., Rusu, L. (eds) Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research. WSKS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35879-1_78

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