Belief in dangerous virtual communities as a predictor of continuance intention mediated by general and online social anxiety: The Facebook perspective

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Highlights：

• Facebook was applied to investigate correlation between psychological symptoms.

• Belief in dangerous virtual community is correlated to social anxiety.

• Increase in social anxiety increases the continuance intention.

• Increase in general social anxiety increases the online social anxiety.

摘要

•Facebook was applied to investigate correlation between psychological symptoms.•Belief in dangerous virtual community is correlated to social anxiety.•Increase in social anxiety increases the continuance intention.•Increase in general social anxiety increases the online social anxiety.

论文关键词：General social anxiety,Online social anxiety,Belief in dangerous virtual communities,Continuance intention

论文评审过程：Available online 7 March 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.019