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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