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TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 342-355Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2015.08.014
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Social Apps; Continuance intention; Satisfaction; Habit; Customer value perspectives
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The emergence of mobile application software (App) has explosively grown in conjunction with the worldwide use of smartphones in recent years. Among numerous categories of mobile Apps, social Apps were one of those with the greatest growth in 2013. Despite abundant research on users' behavior intention of mobile App usage, few studies have focused on investigating key determinants of users' continuance intention regarding social Apps. To fill this gap, we integrated customer value perspectives to explore the influential factors in the continuance intention of social App use. Moreover, users' satisfaction and habit from both the marketing and psychology literature were also incorporated into the research model. A total of 378 valid questionnaires were collected by survey method, and structural equation modeling was employed in the subsequent data analysis. The results indicate that the continuance usage of social Apps is driven by users' satisfaction, tight connection with others, and hedonic motivation to use the Apps. In addition, full mediation effects of satisfaction and habit were found between perceived usefulness and intention to continue use. These findings extend our understanding of users' continuance intention in the context of social Apps. Discussion and implications are provided. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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