“…To answer the first research question, we proposed and examined a stickiness formation model using the cognitive-affective-conative framework, which functions as a major theory for understanding attitude and behavior (Hilgard, 1980;Kim and Chen, 2021). As social media affordances increase privacy concerns (Pentina et al, 2016), we examined the effect of perceived privacy risk (PPR) and regarded trust as a key component of attitude; as social media affordances bring entertaining experiences (Caraway et al, 2017), we treated perceived hedonic value (PHV) as an equally important factor with perceived utilitarian value (PUV); as social media affordances promote user engagement (Lin et al, 2019), we examined how previous personal investment (PI) influenced future stickiness; as social media affordances facilitate inapp social activities (Fu et al, 2019), we examined the effect of subjective norm (SN).…”