Can entertainment and information gratifications influence compulsive short video app use? The pivotal function of immersive experience and emotional attachment

IF 2.4 3区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS

Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.entcom.2025.101030

Hua Pang , Jingyuan Zhao

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Abstract

Existing studies have documented the detrimental consequences associated with the compulsive and excessive utilization of short video app, yet the exact causes of these problematic usage patterns remain unclear. Addressing this gap, this study employs the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) paradigm to investigate how entertainment, information, and sociality gratifications influence immersive experience and emotional attachment, and how these psychological states in turn drive compulsive usage behaviors among young users. Employing a questionnaire survey method to collect data, the research uses a sample of 896 short video app users and employs structural equation modeling to validate a conceptual framework. The findings reveal that entertainment gratification and information gratification exert a significant influence on users’ immersive experience and emotional attachment. Furthermore, this study discovers that immersive experience and emotional attachment serve as two mediators in shaping the influence of users’ gratifications sought on compulsive app utilization. By identifying the factors driving compulsive use among younger generation, this research provides insights for app developers and organizations within the short video app industry, as well as for public health authorities and educational institutions.

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娱乐和信息满足会影响强迫性短视频应用的使用吗？沉浸式体验和情感依恋的关键功能

现有的研究已经记录了与强迫性和过度使用短视频应用相关的有害后果，但这些问题使用模式的确切原因尚不清楚。为了解决这一差距，本研究采用刺激-有机体-反应（SOR）范式来研究娱乐、信息和社会性满足如何影响沉浸式体验和情感依恋，以及这些心理状态如何反过来驱动年轻用户的强迫性使用行为。本研究采用问卷调查法收集数据，以896个短视频应用用户为样本，采用结构方程模型对概念框架进行验证。研究发现，娱乐满足和信息满足对用户沉浸式体验和情感依恋有显著影响。此外，本研究还发现，沉浸式体验和情感依恋在用户寻求满足对强迫性应用使用的影响中起着两个中介作用。通过确定导致年轻一代强迫性使用的因素，这项研究为短视频应用程序行业的应用程序开发人员和组织，以及公共卫生当局和教育机构提供了见解。

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来源期刊

Entertainment Computing Computer Science-Human-Computer Interaction

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

7.10%

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期刊介绍： Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners. Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal.