When social networking turns to social overload: Explaining the stress, emotional exhaustion, and quitting behavior from social network sites' users

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maier, Christian ^a   Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discontinuous usage intention; Emotional exhaustion; Facebook; Hedonic technology usage; Satisfaction; Social network site; Social overload; Strain; Stress strain outcome model; Stressor

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STRAIN;

EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION; FACEBOOK; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL OVERLOAD; STRESSOR; TECHNOLOGY USAGES; USAGE INTENTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905728074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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