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The Impact of Functional and Emotional Factors on User Satisfaction and Commitment toward Mobile Messenger Service: Investigating the Mediating Effects of Intimacy and Fatigue

기능적·정서적 요인이 모바일 메신저 서비스에 대한 사용자 만족과 몰입에 미치는 영향: 친밀감과 피로도의 매개효과를 중심으로

  • Lee, Ae Ri (Barun ICT Research Center, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Yong Wan (Barun ICT Research Center, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Yujin (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2015.12.07
  • Accepted : 2016.02.17
  • Published : 2016.02.28

Abstract

The diffusion of smartphone has make people engaged in communication with mobile messenger in everyday life. To understand the rapid growth of mobile messenger usage, this study investigates the unique features of mobile messenger services as communication media. Based on the media synchronicity theory and literature about online communication, we identify the functional and emotional features of mobile messenger. In particular, this study demonstrates that functional and emotional features of mobile messenger would influence intimacy and fatigue. Also, intimacy and fatigue, as mediating variables, have an impact on user satisfaction and commitment toward mobile messenger service. The results of this study provide practical implications for mobile messenger providers and users which attempt to facilitate positive effect such as intimacy among users and reduce negative effect such as fatigue on mobile messenger communication.

스마트폰 확산에 따라 모바일 메신저 사용이 급증하고 있으며, 모바일 메신저를 통한 커뮤니케이션이 일상화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 메신저 사용 원인과 결과적 현상을 고찰하고자, 커뮤니케이션 미디어로써 모바일 메신저 서비스가 지닌 독특한 특성을 파악하고, 이러한 특성이 모바일 메신저 이용 증가(사용자 몰입과 만족도)에 영향을 줌을 검증하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 미디어 동기성 이론과 온라인 커뮤니케이션에 대한 문헌연구를 기반으로 모바일 메신저의 주요한 기능적 특성과 감성적 특성을 도출하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 대인간 커뮤니케이션에 의해 나타날 수 있는 긍정적 효과인 친밀감과 부정적 효과인 피로도를 매개변수로 설정하고, 모바일 메신저 서비스 사용자들이 경험하는 기능적, 정서적 특성 요인이 친밀감과 피로도에 미치는 영향을 검증하였다. 또한 매개변수인 친밀감과 피로도가 모바일 메신저 서비스 이용에 대한 만족과 몰입에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 모바일 메신저 사용의 피로도를 증가시키는 요인과 친밀감을 촉진할 수 있는 요인이 분석됨에 따라, 모바일 메신저 사업자와 사용자들에게 실무적인 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

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