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Investigating Motivations For Using Dating Websites And Geosocial Apps, Sean Calvin Aaron
Investigating Motivations For Using Dating Websites And Geosocial Apps, Sean Calvin Aaron
Theses and Dissertations
Using the internet to meet dating partners is increasingly popular and may have ramifications that are not yet fully realized. Although many dating sites have been operating for years, new online dating platforms continue to draw millions of new users. By using a large sample of people who use online dating platforms (n=1,286) we identified similarities and differences in what motivates people to use geosocial apps and dating sites. Motivations previously considered in the literature were supported and brought together in a single theory driven confirmatory factor analysis for each type of dating platform. A motivation to seek amusement was …