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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.11.6547

Motivation for following College Sports Teams' Social Media Accounts  

Park, Jae-Ahm (Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas)
Dittmore, Stephen W. (Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.11, 2014 , pp. 6547-6555 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempted to verify what motivates fans to follow college sports teams' social media and identify the motivational factors that can best predict fans' social media consumption. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) indicated that previously identified seven motives for online consumption, i.e., information, diversion, socialization, pass-time, fanship, team support, and technical knowledge, are compatible with the use of college sports teams' social media. In addition, a results of multiple regression found diversion, socialization, fanship, team support, and technical knowledge to significantly predict the level of social media consumption while information and pass-time did not significantly affect social media consumption. In particular, socialization had the greatest influence on social media consumption.
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Motivation; Social media; College sports;
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