Dealing with social networking site addiction: a cognitive-affective model of discontinuance decisions

Isaac Vaghefi is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Pace University–New York. He holds a PhD in business administration -information systems from the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University–Montreal, Canada. His research primarily focuses on the Dark side of information systems (IS) use, especially IS addiction, as well as Healthcare IT adoption. His works have been published at Information Systems Journal, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Medical Internet Research, European Business Review, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and Psychiatry Research; and were presented at premier conferences of Information Systems and Management disciplines. He has served as editor and reviewer for multiple journals, and as chair and reviewer for major conferences in Information Systems discipline.

Hamed Qahri-Saremi is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration on information systems from the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. His research interests lie at the intersection of social and technological systems, including the positive and negative impacts of information systems, computer-mediated communications, electronic word of mouth, and online communities. His research papers have appeared in various journals, such as Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information and Management, New Media and Society, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Internet Research, Computers and Education, Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and European Financial Review, and are presented in various conferences. He has served in various capacities as an associate editor, a track chair, a mini-track chair, a session chair, and a reviewer for a number of journals and conferences in information systems.

Ofir Turel is Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, and Scholar in Residence at the Decision Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC). His research interests include a broad range of behavioral, bio-physiological and managerial issues in various information systems use contexts. He has published over 140 articles in business, research methods, psychology, psychiatry and medicine journals. Example business outlets include MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Communications of the ACM. Example psychology outlets include Addiction Biology, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience, Behavioral Brain Research, Neuroscience Letters, Substance Use and Misuse, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. He is currently an Associate Editor for the MIS Quarterly and Scientific Reports (by Nature).