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Paper Number
1541
Paper Type
Completed
Description
This research examines the relationship between social media attachment and addiction by considering social media as built environments that users infrastructure or furnish to their preferences and interests (Reimers et al. 2022). Grounded in the interactional theory of place attachment and the affordance perspective, this study identifies the properties of social media's built environments that promote attachment. We assessed a structural model using survey data collected from 324 students at a major U.S. university. The results reveal that a strong attachment to social media significantly predicts addiction, highlighting how positive experiences can lead to unintended negative outcomes. This aligns with prior research, which suggests that people primarily use social media platforms for pleasurable experiences, driven by the psychological need for comfort, familiarity, and enjoyment. The implications of these findings are discussed, underscoring the importance of considering place attachment in the study of social media addiction.
Recommended Citation
Sikhondze, Bachazile L. and Miranda, Shaila M., "A Sense of Place: An Affordance Perspective on Social Media Attachment and Social Media Addiction" (2023). ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 9.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/soc_impactIS/soc_impactIS/9
A Sense of Place: An Affordance Perspective on Social Media Attachment and Social Media Addiction
This research examines the relationship between social media attachment and addiction by considering social media as built environments that users infrastructure or furnish to their preferences and interests (Reimers et al. 2022). Grounded in the interactional theory of place attachment and the affordance perspective, this study identifies the properties of social media's built environments that promote attachment. We assessed a structural model using survey data collected from 324 students at a major U.S. university. The results reveal that a strong attachment to social media significantly predicts addiction, highlighting how positive experiences can lead to unintended negative outcomes. This aligns with prior research, which suggests that people primarily use social media platforms for pleasurable experiences, driven by the psychological need for comfort, familiarity, and enjoyment. The implications of these findings are discussed, underscoring the importance of considering place attachment in the study of social media addiction.
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