Flow Experience and Self-Traits as Antecedents of Facebook Addiction: Factorial Validity of the Daily Facebook Addiction Scale

Tsai-Wei Huang, Guan-Han Wu and Han-Chao Chang

International Business Research, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Facebook has become indispensable in social interactions. Unmarried users may find a date or life partner by uploading attractive photos of themselves or messaging their crushes. This study developed the Daily Facebook Addiction Scale (DFAS), which focuses on using mobile devices to access Facebook. The aims were explored how flow experience is created based on the self-traits of Facebook users and analyzed the relationship between flow experience and Facebook addiction. Data was obtained 401 participants through the Internet, in total, 231 were addicted to Facebook, that is, they accessed it for >2 hours a day. This study indicated: (1) users’ concentration and interactivity had a positive effect on creating flow experience but enjoyment did not. (2) Respondents’ flow experiences had a significant effect on Facebook addiction. (3) The subfactors of a respondent’s self-traits individually had positive effects on flow experience and Facebook addiction, and self-control generated the most significant effect. Three antecedents, namely self-traits, flow experience, and Facebook addiction, do indeed affect each other.

Keywords: flow experience; self-traits; Facebook addiction; Daily Facebook Addiction Scale (DFAS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ibr/article/download/0/0/37767/38151 (application/pdf)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ibr/article/view/0/37767 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:ibrjnl:v:12:y:2019:i:1:p:1-15

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Business Research from Canadian Center of Science and Education Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Canadian Center of Science and Education ().