Does a contextualized theory of planned behavior explain why teenagers stay in virtual worlds?

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 567-576

  Mäntymäki, Matti ^a   Merikivi, Jani ^b   Verhagen, Tibert ^c   Feldberg, Frans ^c   Rajala, Risto ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Continued use; Decomposed theory of planned behavior; Online service; Teenager; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CONTINUED USE; DECOMPOSED THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR; ON-LINE SERVICE; TEENAGER; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84902214039     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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