| Title |
Antecedents of positive self-disclosure online: an empirical study of US college students’ Facebook usage
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, May 2017
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| DOI | 10.2147/prbm.s136049 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hongliang Chen |
| Abstract |
This study investigates the factors predicting positive self-disclosure on social networking sites (SNSs). There is a formidable body of empirical research relating to online self-disclosure, but very few studies have assessed the antecedents of positive self-disclosure. To address this literature gap, the current study tests the effects of self-esteem, life satisfaction, social anxiety, privacy concerns, public self-consciousness (SC), and perceived collectivism on positive self-disclosure on SNSs. Data were collected online via Qualtrics in April 2013. Respondents were undergraduate students from the University of Connecticut. Using ordinary least squares regression, the current study found that self-esteem and perceived collectivism increased positive self-disclosure, life satisfaction, and privacy concerns decreased positive self-disclosure, and the effects of social anxiety and public SC were not significant. |
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| United States | 1 | 25% |
| France | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
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| Unknown | 70 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 29 | 41% |
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| Psychology | 16 | 23% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
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