The temporal relationships among habit, intention and IS uses

This study raised the following two research questions about the relationships among habit, intention and uses. First, there may have some differences between habit and intention in the effects on uses, especially temporally. Second, the relationship between past and future use may involve more than habit. In order to answer the questions, based on the memory process model, theories in traditional social psychology and path dependency theory, three hypotheses were proposed on the following topics: habit with proximal and distal uses, intention with proximal and distal uses, and proximal-distal uses. Surveying Korean social network service (SNS) users, and analyzing the data via a partial least square analysis, all the hypotheses were shown to be valid. In this study, we found the effects of intention on IS use differ temporally and past use can be considered a determinant for use.