Transportation or Narrative Completion? Attentiveness during Binge-Watching Moderates Regret
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
U&G Motives
3. Method
3.1. Sampling Procedure
3.2. Survey Instrument Development
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
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1. Binge | — | 0.054 | 0.123 *** | 0.064 | −0.101 ** | −0.213 *** | 0.100 ** | −0.102 ** |
2. NC | — | 0.552 *** | 0.029 | 0.061 | 0.087 * | −0.055 | 0.022 | |
3. NT | — | −0.021 | 0.034 | −0.020 | −0.003 | 0.034 | ||
4. Extra | — | 0.239 *** | 0.147 *** | −0.365 *** | 0.011 | |||
5. Agree | — | 0.261 *** | −0.337 *** | 0.069 | ||||
6. Consc | — | −0.362 *** | 0.181 *** | |||||
7. Neuro | — | −0.028 | ||||||
8. Open | — |
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