Having belief(s) in social virtual worlds: A decomposed approach

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1168-1188

  Merikivi, Jani ^a   Verhagen, Tibert ^b   Feldberg, Frans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudinal beliefs; continual use; control beliefs; decomposed theory of planned behavior; normative beliefs; social virtual world

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885726042     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812466719     Document Type: Article

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