LINE is an instant messenger that is similar to other internet-based messengers, such as WhatsApp, and is the most-downloaded social media/messenger application in Japan. The application was released in June 2011, following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, with the aim of creating an application where users can easily communicate even in the event of a disaster. In Japan, LINE has come to replace traditional mobile text messaging services (including SMS), especially among young people.
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Associations Between Dependency on LINE Text Messaging and Occurrence of Negative Emotions in LINE Group Chats
Shogo Kato (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan), Yuuki Kato (Sagami Women's University, Japan), and Kiminori Usuki (Tokyo Metropolitan Mizuho Nogei High School, Japan)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9412-3.ch008
Abstract
This study examined associations between dependency on LINE text messaging and the times at which negative emotions occurred in survey participants in LINE group chats in two situations—when waiting for a response and when making others wait for a response. The main results of correlation analyses of dependency scores and times are as follows. While effects were not observed for dependency as a whole, strong effects of partial subscales were observed. That is, the higher the score of relationship maintenance, which is a subscale of dependency, the shorter the time it takes for negative emotions to occur. On the other hand, it was partially suggested that the higher the score of excessive use, which is another subscale of dependency, the longer the time for negative emotions to occur. This study proposes that it is necessary to break down each aspect of LINE text-messaging dependency when examining the impact of the dependency on the timing of users generating negative emotions in LINE group chats.