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An Empirical Study of Discontinuous Use Intention on SNS: From a Perspective of Society Comparison Theory

사회비교이론 관점에서 살펴본 SNS 이용중단 의도

  • Received : 2015.07.28
  • Accepted : 2015.08.19
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

Social networking sites (SNS), such as Facebook, provide abundant social comparison opportunities. Given the widespread use of SNSs, the purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of exposure to social media-based social comparison on user's negative emotions and discontinuous use intention on SNS. We present evidence that under the use of SNS, social comparison activities diverge into three patterns, with explicit self-evaluation desire made against similar target (lateral comparison), self-defense desire made against less fortunate target (downward comparison), and self-enhancement desire made with more fortunate target (upward comparison). Such social comparison processes frequently arise, as people are increasingly using on SNSs, the downward contacts ameliorating self-esteem with positive emotions, but the upward contacts and standard contacts with lateral status enabling a person to compare his or her situation with others and simultaneously increase negative emotions due to its differences with others. In other words, as people increasingly relying on SNSs for a variety of everyday tasks, they risk overexposure to upward or standard social comparison information that may have a cumulative detrimental impact on future intention on SNS use. This study with survey with 209 SNS users found that these negative emotions lead to negative fatigue (attitude) and then discontinuous use intention (behavior) on SNS. Our findings are among the first to explicitly examine discontinuous use intention on SNS using social comparison theory and our results are consistent with those of past research showing that upward social comparisons can be detrimental.

소셜 네트워크 서비스(SNS; social network service)의 발전과 확산으로 사람들은 타인의 정보를 시간과 장소에 구애 받지 않고 쉽게 공유할 수 있게 되었고, 타인과의 관계형성 또한 더욱 쉽고 빠른 방법으로 가능하게 되었다. 특히 페이스북 같은 SNS는 광범위한 사용성과 빠른 확산성과 함께, 타인과의 풍부한 사회비교 기회를 갖게 한다. 본 연구는 소셜 미디어에 기반한 사회비교 노출이 사용자의 부정적인 감정과 SNS의 사용중단 의도에 끼치는 영향을 실증적으로 탐구하는데 그 목적이 있다. 먼저, 본 연구는 SNS 사용자의 사회비교 활동이 크게 3가지로 나뉜다고 보았는데, 가장먼저 본인의 위치와 비슷하다고 느끼는 상대와 자신을 평가하려는 자기평가욕구에서 시작하는 유사비교활동, 본인보다 더 열등한 사람과 비교함으로써 자신의 정서가 다치지 않게 하려는 자기방어욕구에서 비롯되는 하향비교활동, 마지막으로 자신보다 더 나은 상대와 비교함으로써 자신을 발전시키고자 하는 자기향상욕구와 관련되는 상향비교활동이다. 이러한 사회비교활동들은 사람들이 매일매일 SNS에 지나치게 의존하고 상향비교, 유사비교와 관련된 정보들에 자주 노출됨으로써, 빈번하게 발생될 수 있으며, 이는 결국 부정적인 감정들과 피로감으로 이어져 SNS 중단의도로 이어질 수 있다는 것이다. 본 연구는 209명의 SNS 사용자들을 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통하여 SNS 이용자들이 타인과 상향비교와 유사비교를 할수록 부정적 감정을 느끼게 되어, 이러한 감정들이 결국 SNS에 대한 부정적 태도(Attitude)를 거쳐 SNS 이용중단(Behavior)에 이르게 된다는 것을 밝히고자하였다. PLS 분석결과, SNS 사용 중 일어나는 사회비교와 타인탐색위주의 SNS의 사용은 사용자들에게 부정적인 감정들을 느끼게 하며 이 부정적인 감정들이 SNS 이용중단 의도에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 SNS 이용중단 의도에 관한 연구를 사회 심리학적 관점으로 확대하여 실증적 연구를 진행했다는 점과 상향비교 또는 유사비교가 부정적인 영향을 끼칠 수 있다는 기존의 심리학연구결과를 SNS 환경에서 실증적으로 증명하였다는 점에서 그 학술적 의의가 크다고 할 수 있다.

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