Why do we use different types of websites and assign them different levels of credibility? Structural relations among users’ motives, types of websites, information credibility, and trust in the press

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 231-239

  Go, Eun ^a   You, Kyung Han ^b   Jung, Eunhwa ^c   Shim, Hongjin ^d  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information credibility; Online news; Social networking; Trust in press; Uses and gratification (U G)

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; PORTALS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); WEBSITES;

INFORMATION CREDIBILITIES; INFORMATION SEEKING; ON-LINE INFORMATION; ONLINE NEWS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING METHOD; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORIES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRUST;

EID: 84977948922     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.046     Document Type: Article

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