The Effect of Individual Needs, Trust and Identification in Explaining Participation Intentions in Virtual Communities

This paper studied individuals' intentions to participate in virtual communities. In order to assess what influences participation intentions, we studied individual-based factors (members' social needs and self expression needs), trust and identification. We found that although needs deficiency-based motivation theory is useful to explain participation intentions, trust and identification play an important moderating role

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