Overall, this paper finds evidence that people who are involved in online relationships are those who are willing to communicate in real life, rather than the opposite. Results of multiple regression analysis revealed that respondents who felt anxiety and fears in their face-to-face communication used Facebook to pass time and feel less lonely more than other respondents, but they had fewer Facebook friends. In addition, it examined the relationship between unwillingness-to-communicate and the behavioral and attitudinal outcomes of Facebook use (e.g., the number of hours spent on Facebook, duration of use, the number of Facebook friends, satisfaction with Facebook). The study investigated the relationship between two dimensions of unwillingness-to-communicate (approach-avoidance and reward) and different motives of Facebook use. Originality/value – The paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the factors that promote the use of weblogs.Ī survey with 172 students was conducted at a large southern research university to examine how unwillingness-to-communicate in interpersonal communication influences gratifications sought and gratifications obtained from Facebook use. Practical implications – For weblog service providers, the results can be used to develop tools to enhance people's intentions to publish according to gender. Moreover, it was found that gender moderates the relationships between factors and the intention in the research model.
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The research found that these factors are important determinants of the intention to update weblogs. Research limitations/implications – The authors verified the effects of subjective norms, personal outcome expectations and self-expression on the intentions of weblog owners. Additionally, women's intention was strongly influenced by self-expression while men's intention was strongly influenced by personal outcome expectations of using weblogs. Findings – The results indicate that subjective norms have a stronger effect on the intention than personal outcome expectations or self-expression. An empirical study involving 525 subjects was conducted to test this model.
These were based on Social Cognitive Theory. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose a model incorporating three key determinants of the intention to update weblogs: self-expression subjective norms and personal outcome expectations.
Purpose – This paper aims to improve understanding of what motivates individual blog owners to post information frequently on weblogs, and whether gender affects those motivations. Furthermore, when the Internet is perceived as sensitive, warm, and active, the disclosures appear more private and intimate but the contents are more negative and undesirable. Similarly, when people perceive the Internet as a personalized medium, disclosures will be more about themselves. In addition, when the Internet is perceived as a sociable medium, the disclosures on ICQ tend to be open, personal, intimate, honest, and focus to a greater extent on their negative feelings and opinions. People who are more willing to participate in real life communication tend to disclose more intimately, positively, and to a greater extent about themselves in ICQ whereas, people who find real life communication un-rewarding would tend to be more dishonest, negative, less desirable, and less open in disclosing their opinions and beliefs. However, Approach-Avoidance (UCS-AA) and Reward (UCS-R) dimensions of unwillingness-to-communicate were found to be significantly related to different self-disclosure dimensions. The results show that both the unwillingness-to-communicate and Internet perceptions are not related to level of ICQ use. It focuses on the effects of unwillingness-to-communicate and media perceptions of the Internet on self-disclosure in ICQ in terms of control of depth, honesty, positive–negative, and amount. This exploratory research examined the ICQ usage pattern among a group of 591 Internet users, aged 15–36, as well as their self-disclosing behaviors in ICQ conversations.
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