ABSTRACT Focusing on social networking site (SNS) users, this research conceptualizes, theorizes on and tests information systems (IS) use reduction herein defined as users’ attempt to reduce their use of an IS to levels that seem reasonable to them to avoid negative implications. IS use reduction is more realistic for many users than full discontinuance, more prevalent than many other corrective behaviors, and can have many desirable outcomes. Yet, knowledge regarding this behavior has been limited. It therefore warrants more attention in IS research and a growing need to develop interventions aimed at helping users reducing excessive IS use such as SNSs. We suggest that IS use reduction can be motivated by negative consequences of excessive SNS use and that the way users translate such states into SNS use reduction intentions can be explained by a contextual and nuanced adaptation of Bandura’s self-regulation of motivation and self-reactive framework. A survey study (study 1, n=257) was used to theorize and test the determinants of SNS use reduction intentions, and a longitudinal experimental study (study 2, n=127) extended the validity of the survey study findings, established causality and examined whether the manipulation the survey study predictors can produce actual SNS use reduction.

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系统使用减少作为自我监管 IS 使用行为的概念化和验证

摘要 本研究以社交网站 (SNS) 用户为重点，对信息系统 (IS) 使用减少进行概念化、理论化和测试，此处定义为用户尝试将其对 IS 的使用减少到他们认为合理的水平以避免负面影响. 对于许多用户来说，减少 IS 使用比完全中断更现实，比许多其他纠正行为更普遍，并且可以产生许多理想的结果。然而，关于这种行为的知识是有限的。因此，需要在 IS 研究中给予更多关注，并且越来越需要开发旨在帮助用户减少过度使用 IS 的干预措施，例如 SNS。我们认为，过度使用 SNS 的负面后果可能会促使 IS 使用减少，并且用户将此类状态转化为 SNS 使用减少意图的方式可以通过班杜拉自我调节动机和自我反应框架的上下文和细微差别来解释. 一项调查研究（研究 1，n=257）用于理论化和测试 SNS 使用减少意图的决定因素，纵向实验研究（研究 2，n=127）扩展了调查研究结果的有效性，确定了因果关系和检查了调查研究预测变量的操纵是否可以产生实际的 SNS 使用减少。