Adverse consequences of excessive social networking site use on academic performance: Explaining underlying mechanism from stress perspective

As social networking sites (SNSs) become increasingly pervasive among students, educational information system (EIS) researchers begin to highlight the potential negative effect of SNSs for students. Despite such interest, scholars have paid little attention to the underlying mechanism of EIS to date. By employing two well-known theoretical models (namely, the transactional model of stress and the stressor–strain–outcome framework), we...