Exploring individuals' loyalty to online support groups from the perspective of social support

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lin, Tung Ching ^a   Hsu, Jack Shih Chieh ^a   Cheng, Hsiang Lan ^a   Chiu, Chao Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Group identification; Loyalty; Online support groups; Psychological well being; Social support

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GROUP IDENTIFICATION; LOYALTY; ONLINE SUPPORT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928202981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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