Understanding computer-mediated communication attributes and life satisfaction from the perspectives of uses and gratifications and self-determination

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Highlights：

• Need satisfaction in online friendships predicted adolescent life satisfaction.

• CMC attributes directly predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.

• CMC attributes also indirectly predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.

• Media orientations predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.

• Online communication and online self-disclosure were mediators.

摘要

•Need satisfaction in online friendships predicted adolescent life satisfaction.•CMC attributes directly predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.•CMC attributes also indirectly predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.•Media orientations predicted need satisfaction in online friendships.•Online communication and online self-disclosure were mediators.

论文关键词：Life satisfaction,Online friendships,Psychological need satisfaction,Self-determination theory,Uses and gratifications theory

论文评审过程：Available online 6 March 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.037