Enjoyment fosters media use frequency and determines its relational outcomes: Toward a synthesis of uses and gratifications theory and media multiplexity theory
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Highlights：
• We used conditional process analysis to study medium enjoyment in extended families.
• Enjoyment of a medium predicted medium use frequency in extended families.
• Medium use frequency positively predicts relational closeness.
• Medium enjoyment moderates the effect media use has on relational closeness.
摘要
•We used conditional process analysis to study medium enjoyment in extended families.•Enjoyment of a medium predicted medium use frequency in extended families.•Medium use frequency positively predicts relational closeness.•Medium enjoyment moderates the effect media use has on relational closeness.
论文关键词：Media multiplexity theory,Uses and gratifications,Media choice,Online communication attitude,Relational closeness
论文评审过程：Received 19 May 2015, Revised 25 July 2015, Accepted 28 July 2015, Available online 15 August 2015, Version of Record 15 August 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.053
