The Discriminant Value of Personality, Motivation, and Online Relationship Quality in Predicting Attraction to Online Social Support on Facebook

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 985-994

  Giota, Kyriaki G ^a   Kleftaras, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

FACEBOOK; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; USER MOTIVATION; YOUNG ADULTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84911960724     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2014.925770     Document Type: Article

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