Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding author: Dr. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4. Tinder is a geo-located online dating application, which is present in almost countries and has 10 million daily users.
The aim of the present research was to investigate the motivational, personality, and basic psychological need-related background of problematic Tinder use. In Study 1, a item first-order factor structure was identified with four motivational factors, such as sex, love, self-esteem enhancement, and boredom.
In Study 2, problematic Tinder use was mainly related to using Tinder for self-esteem enhancement. The Big Five personality factors were only weakly related to the four motivations and to problematic Tinder use. Counterintuitively, Study 3 showed that instead of global self-esteem, relatedness need frustration was the strongest predictor of self-esteem enhancement Tinder-use motivation which, in turn, was the strongest predictor of problematic Tinder use.
Four motivational factors were identified as predictors of problematic use with need frustration being a relevant background variable instead of general personality traits. The present research focuses on one of the most recent forms of location-based, smartphone-related online dating applications, and the most prominent exemplar of it: Tinder, which mainly allows photo-based self-presentation.
This application and service is present in countries Dredge, and has 10 million daily users Smith, In contrast to classical dating sites, Tinder β as a geo-located application β has the advantages of the mobile platform in terms of locatability, portability, availability, and multimediality Marcus, ; Schrock, For this purpose, first, a short and reliable measure was constructed that can assess the different aspects of Tinder-use motivations.
