Table 1 Recent studies on social media...

Table 1

Recent studies on social media discontinuation

Source	Antecedents	Dependent variable	Theoretical lens	Social media type
Cao et al. (2020)	Cyberbullying, social overload, distress, SNS exhaustion	SNS discontinuous intentions	SCT	Facebook and WeChat
Cao and Sun (2018)	Stimuli: Information overload, communication overload, social overload	Discontinuous intention	SOR	No specific social media
Cao and Sun (2018)	Organism: Exhaustion, Regret	Discontinuous intention	SOR	No specific social media
Gao et al. (2018)	Ubiquitous connectivity, privacy concern, protection motivation, information overload, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuous usage intention	PMT, Information Processing Theory	No specific social media
Liu et al. (2021)	Stimuli: Perceived COVID-19 information overload	Social media discontinuance intention	SOR	No specific social media
	Organism: fatigue, fear of COVID-19
	Moderator: FoMO
Luqman et al. (2017)	Stimuli: Excessive social use, excessive hedonic use, excessive cognitive use	Discontinuance usage intention	SOR	Facebook
Luqman et al. (2017)	Organism: technostress, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuance usage intention	SOR	Facebook
Nawaz et al. (2018)	Stressor: social overload, information overload, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuance intention	SSO	No specific social media
Nawaz et al. (2018)	Strain: Dissatisfaction, Regret	Discontinuance intention	SSO	No specific social media
Zhang et al. (2016)	Stressor: system feature overload, information overload, social overload	Discontinuous usage intention	SSO	Qzone (A Chinese social media)
Zhang et al. (2016)	Strain: social network fatigue, dissatisfaction	Discontinuous usage intention	SSO	Qzone (A Chinese social media)

Source	Antecedents	Dependent variable	Theoretical lens	Social media type
Cao et al. (2020)	Cyberbullying, social overload, distress, SNS exhaustion	SNS discontinuous intentions	SCT	Facebook and WeChat
Cao and Sun (2018)	Stimuli: Information overload, communication overload, social overload	Discontinuous intention	SOR	No specific social media
Cao and Sun (2018)	Organism: Exhaustion, Regret	Discontinuous intention	SOR	No specific social media
Gao et al. (2018)	Ubiquitous connectivity, privacy concern, protection motivation, information overload, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuous usage intention	PMT, Information Processing Theory	No specific social media
Liu et al. (2021)	Stimuli: Perceived COVID-19 information overload	Social media discontinuance intention	SOR	No specific social media
	Organism: fatigue, fear of COVID-19
	Moderator: FoMO
Luqman et al. (2017)	Stimuli: Excessive social use, excessive hedonic use, excessive cognitive use	Discontinuance usage intention	SOR	Facebook
Luqman et al. (2017)	Organism: technostress, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuance usage intention	SOR	Facebook
Nawaz et al. (2018)	Stressor: social overload, information overload, SNS exhaustion	Discontinuance intention	SSO	No specific social media
Nawaz et al. (2018)	Strain: Dissatisfaction, Regret	Discontinuance intention	SSO	No specific social media
Zhang et al. (2016)	Stressor: system feature overload, information overload, social overload	Discontinuous usage intention	SSO	Qzone (A Chinese social media)
Zhang et al. (2016)	Strain: social network fatigue, dissatisfaction	Discontinuous usage intention	SSO	Qzone (A Chinese social media)

Note(s): SNS = Social networks sites, SCT = Social Cognitive Theory, SOR =Stimuli-organism-response framework, PMT = Protection motivation theory, FoMO = Fear of missing out and SSO = Stressor-strain-outcome framework

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