Development as an Explanation for and Predictor of Online Self-Disclosure Among Dutch Adolescents

Revealing the self in a digital world: A systematic review of adolescent online and offline self-disclosure

“…Female adolescents may have been reported as self-disclosing more as they begin doing so from a younger age and their friendship networks were defined by selfdisclosure and commitment to their peers, unlike male friendship networks 29 . In contrast to this, two papers found higher self-disclosure in males than in females 32,45 while three papers did not find significant gender differences 27,39,43 . One study reported a gender difference in text-based selfdisclosure, but did not report whether disclosure was higher in males or females 46 .…”

The Importance Of Emotions And Personal Characteristics On Adolescents’ Risky Photo-Disclosure Online

“…However, according to our results, only narcissism is significantly related to such kind of behaviour. Thus, we may agree with authors stating that a need to be positively evaluated by others and basically to be observed by others makes adolescents not only to self-disclose themselves verbally (Krcmar, van der Meer &, Cingel, 2015), but alsois related to their need to risky photo disclosure. Not surprisingly, the results of the study also showed that age and gender plays an important role in adolescents' photo disclosure on SNS: older females are more likely to engage in risky photo disclosure than other peers.…”

“…Another personal characteristic is narcissism. Researchers, analysing adolescents self-disclosure in online settings (e.g., Krcmar, van der Meer, & Cingel, 2015;Liu, Ang, & Lwin, 2013;Hawk et al, 2015) state that narcissism fosters online self-disclosure: more narcissistic adolescents are more likely to disclose online.…”

Exploring the role of egocentrism and fear of missing out on online risk behaviours among adolescents in South Africa

“…Peer acceptance was shown to be crucial in adolescent risk taking more broadly (e.g. Albert et al, 2013;Gardner & Steinberg, 2005;Kasperson et al, 1988), and previous studies relating to online activities have found that Imaginary Audience was linked to self-disclosure (Krcmar et al, 2015) and impression management on Facebook (Ranzini & Hoek, 2017). The current study findings demonstrate how an imagined audience can impact on online risk taking during adolescence and further research is needed to examine this construct in more detail, particularly in relation to its impact on online behaviours and links to impression management and how this might be related to risk behaviours.…”

“…Imaginary Audience ideation was also shown to be positively linked to Facebook use among 9-26 year olds (Cingel & Krcmar, 2014). A positive relationship was found between Imaginary Audience ideation and self-disclosure on Facebook, emerging as a stronger predictor than trait narcissism (Krcmar, van der Meer, & Cingel, 2015). It was also linked to impression management on Facebook (Ranzini & Hoek, 2017).…”