The antecedents of SNS fatigue in the literature
| Study | Context | Theory | Research method | Antecedents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Jallad and Radwan (2021) | General SNS | CLT, SSO, and SESAT | Survey (Correlation analysis) | Privacy concerns, perceived information overload, social comparison, FoMO, perceived system-feature overload, self-disclosure, and impression management concerns |
| Ashiru et al. (2023) | Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO |
| Bright and Logan (2018) | General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO, social media advertising, intrusiveness, attitude toward social media advertising |
| Budnick et al. (2020) | General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO |
| Cao et al. (2020) | Facebook and WeChat | SCT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived social overload |
| Cao et al. (2021) | Mobile social networking App | AT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, system feature overload, and social overload |
| Cao and Sun (2018) | General SNS | SOR | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and social overload |
| Chaouali (2016) | U&G, SRT, & PEFM | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and social overload | |
| Dhir et al. (2018) | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Compulsive SNS use | |
| Fu and Li (2022) | SCT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived technology overload, information overload and social overload | |
| Gao et al. (2018) | Weibo, WeChat, Qzone, and others | PMT & IPT | Survey (SEM) | Ubiquitous connectivity, perceived information overload |
| Guo et al. (2020) | WeChat Moments | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Information irrelevance, perceived social overload and information overload |
| Hattingh et al. (2022) | Snapchat and Instagram | TCIU, SDT, LC4MP | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, perceived communication overload, and FoMO |
| Islam et al. (2020) | General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and communication overload |
| Lee et al. (2016) | General SNS | PEFM & TTSC | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and system feature overload |
| Lin et al. (2020) | SOR | Survey (SEM) | FoMO, perceived communication overload, information overload, social overload, and flow experience | |
| Lo (2019) | SST | Survey (SEM) | Social support and perceived social overload | |
| Maier et al. (2015) | / | Experiment (SEM) | SNS-stress creators | |
| Milyavskaya et al. (2018) | General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO |
| Pang (2021a) | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload | |
| Sharma et al. (2023) | Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram | SOR | Surveys (SEM) | Perceived information overload |
| Shen et al. (2022) | General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO |
| Sheng et al. (2023) | General SNS | COR | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and system feature overload on SNS fatigue via emotional exhaustion |
| Shokouhyar et al. (2018) | Overload | Surveys (SEM) | Perceived information overload, system feature overload, and social overload | |
| Tandon et al. (2021b) | General SNS | TCIU, SCMT | Surveys (SEM) | FoMO |
| Tugtekin et al. (2020) | General SNS | SSO | Survey (MANOVA) | FoMO, perceived communication overload, information overload, system feature overload, system complexity, system pace of change, information equivocality, and information relevance |
| Whelan et al. (2020) | General SNS | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and boredom proneness |
| Xiao et al. (2019) | General SNS | STA | Survey (SEM) | Social comparison, social surveillance, system complexity, system pace of change, perceived social information overload, and social interaction overload |
| Yu et al. (2018) | General SNS | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived communication overload, information overload, and social overload |
| Zhang et al. (2016) | Qzone | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived system feature overload, information overload, and social overload |
| Zhang et al. (2022a) | General SNS | CT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and social overload |
| Zhou and Tian (2023) | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO, perceived social overload, impression management concerns, network size, quadratic term of network size, and network heterogeneity | |
| Zhu et al. (2023) | General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO |
| Study | Context | Theory | Research method | Antecedents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General SNS | CLT, SSO, and SESAT | Survey (Correlation analysis) | Privacy concerns, perceived information overload, social comparison, FoMO, perceived system-feature overload, self-disclosure, and impression management concerns | |
| Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO | |
| General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO, social media advertising, intrusiveness, attitude toward social media advertising | |
| General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO | |
| Facebook and WeChat | SCT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived social overload | |
| Mobile social networking App | AT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, system feature overload, and social overload | |
| General SNS | SOR | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and social overload | |
| U&G, SRT, & PEFM | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and social overload | ||
| SSO | Survey (SEM) | Compulsive SNS use | ||
| SCT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived technology overload, information overload and social overload | ||
| Weibo, WeChat, Qzone, and others | PMT & IPT | Survey (SEM) | Ubiquitous connectivity, perceived information overload | |
| WeChat Moments | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Information irrelevance, perceived social overload and information overload | |
| Snapchat and Instagram | TCIU, SDT, LC4MP | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, perceived communication overload, and FoMO | |
| General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and communication overload | |
| General SNS | PEFM & TTSC | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and system feature overload | |
| SOR | Survey (SEM) | FoMO, perceived communication overload, information overload, social overload, and flow experience | ||
| SST | Survey (SEM) | Social support and perceived social overload | ||
| / | Experiment (SEM) | SNS-stress creators | ||
| General SNS | / | Survey (MRA) | FoMO | |
| SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload | ||
| Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram | SOR | Surveys (SEM) | Perceived information overload | |
| General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO | |
| General SNS | COR | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and system feature overload on SNS fatigue via emotional exhaustion | |
| Overload | Surveys (SEM) | Perceived information overload, system feature overload, and social overload | ||
| General SNS | TCIU, SCMT | Surveys (SEM) | FoMO | |
| General SNS | SSO | Survey (MANOVA) | FoMO, perceived communication overload, information overload, system feature overload, system complexity, system pace of change, information equivocality, and information relevance | |
| General SNS | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload, communication overload, and boredom proneness | |
| General SNS | STA | Survey (SEM) | Social comparison, social surveillance, system complexity, system pace of change, perceived social information overload, and social interaction overload | |
| General SNS | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived communication overload, information overload, and social overload | |
| Qzone | SSO | Survey (SEM) | Perceived system feature overload, information overload, and social overload | |
| General SNS | CT | Survey (SEM) | Perceived information overload and social overload | |
| / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO, perceived social overload, impression management concerns, network size, quadratic term of network size, and network heterogeneity | ||
| General SNS | / | Survey (SEM) | FoMO |
Note(s): AT: Appraisal theory; CLT: Cognitive load theory; COR: Conservation of resources theory; CT: Cognition theory; IPT: Information processing theory; LC4MP: The limited-capacity model of motivated mediated message processing; MRA: Multiple regression analysis; PEFM: Person-environment fit model; PMT: Protection motivation theory; SCMT: Social comparison theory; SCT: Social cognitive theory; SDT: Self-determination theory; SEM: Structural equation modeling; SESAT: Selective exposure and selective avoidance theory; SOR: Stimulus-organism-response theory; SRT: Self-regulation theory; SSO: Stressor–strain–outcome theory; SST: Social support theory; STA: Socio-technical approach; TCIU: Theory of compensatory Internet use; TTSC: Transactional theory of stress and coping; U&G: The uses and gratifications theory
Source(s): Authors’ own creation
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