Visiting theories that predict college students’ self-disclosure on Facebook

Chang, Chen-Wei; Heo, Jaekyeong

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.059

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“…Previous studies have found an association between users' motivation to use SNSs for social seeking purposes and the extent to which they disclose information on their profiles (Chang and Heo 2014;). This is not entirely surprising as profiles containing much information about the profile owner will generate more interest and trust among other users potentially interested in becoming SNS friends.…”

Section: The Motivation To Meet New Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

An open book on Facebook? Examining the interdependence of adolescents’ privacy regulation strategies

Heirman

Walrave

Vermeulen

et al. 2016

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Users of social network sites (SNSs) use three main strategies that help to manage the privacy of their profile information: (1) limiting the level of data revealed, (2) using privacy settings to exert control over data and (3) audience/friendship management by being restrictive about whom to accept as a 'friend'. Extant research does not show whether these strategies operate as independent mechanisms or whether they are interdependent and work as a system. Given what offline privacy theorist Irwin Altman (1977) designates as the multi-mechanic nature of privacy protection, we test a model in which we expect to find that the three discerned strategies are related to one another. Structural equation modelling analysis performed on the subsample (n = 1564) of our study's data -collected among 1743 adolescents by means of a paper-and-pencil survey -demonstrates that, in line with Altman's vision of privacy protection, the three discerned strategies effectively operate as an interdependent system. In congruence with the hypotheses derived from extant research, we found that adolescents' level of disclosure influences adolescents' involvement in the two other discerned strategies: Adolescents with high levels of personal information disclosure share an increased tendency to have many friends on SNSs and a lower level of using privacy settings. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: The Motivation To Meet New Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

An open book on Facebook? Examining the interdependence of adolescents’ privacy regulation strategies

Heirman

Walrave

Vermeulen

et al. 2016

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…Information withholding in the context of e-commerce and e-health is usually measured by counting the frequencies of stated information categories required by service providers, including personal identification information, online experiences, personal hobbies, financial data or health records, and so on (Jin, 2012;Metzger & Miriam, 2007). However, compared to e-commerce and e-health, disclosing or withholding information is to some degree voluntary in SNS (Chang & Heo, 2014). E-commerce and e-health users will not voluntarily reveal personal information unless they are requested to provide specific information to complete a transaction or to get medical advice, whereas SNS users are encouraged to proactively disclose and share their daily activities, inner thoughts, and emotional states in the form of status updates, pictures, and other web content (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, because of the increasing concerns raised by negative factors such as privacy issues, users become more reluctant to disclose their personal information in SNSs (Chang & Heo, 2014), which can be viewed as a manifestation of information withholding. To date, a burgeoning body of studies have identified factors that contribute to information disclosure in SNSs, whose different research models are based on theories of uses and gratification (Chang & Heo, 2014;Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014), social contract (Chang & Heo, 2014), privacy calculus (Krasnova, Spiekermann, Koroleva, & Hildebrand, 2010; Min & Kim, 2015), trust (Taddei & Contena, 2013), social capital (Trepte & Reinecke, 2013), Big Five personality (Chen, Widjaja, & Yen, 2015), or SNS flow (Kwak, Choi, & Lee, 2014). However, few studies have investigated the determinants of information withholding by SNS users.…”

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“…Information disclosure about oneself is often known as self-disclosure, and refers to the revelation of personal information to others (Derlega & Chaikin, 1977). The personal information disclosed in SNSs includes not only the static information (e.g., gender, birthday, education background, hometown, e-mail, and phone numbers) required in user profile fields, but also the more dynamic information (e.g., photos, experiences, thoughts, feelings, concerns, and fears) revealed by users' actual usage of SNSs, such as updating status, sharing, commenting, and liking (Chang & Heo, 2014;Taddei & Contena, 2013;Utz, 2015).…”

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A Three-way Interaction Model of Information Withholding: Investigating the Role of Information Sensitivity, Prevention Focus, and Interdependent Self-Construal

Sun

Wang

2017

Data and Information Management

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Abstract:Although user information disclosure behavior in the context of social network service (SNS) has been well studied in previous literature, there is a lack of understanding about user information withholding behavior. To fill this research gap, the present study assumes that there might be a three-way interaction among information sensitivity, prevention focus, and interdependent self-construal regarding information withholding. The proposed model is empirically tested through an online survey of 479 users in the context of WeChat, one of the most popular SNSs in China. The results of hierarchical regression analysis verify the three-way interaction that prevention focus positively moderates the relationship between information sensitivity and information withholding, and interdependent self-construal strengthens the moderating effect of prevention focus. Findings in light of theoretical and practical implications as well as limitations of the study are discussed.

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“…Self-disclosure behaviour through Facebook allows people to achieve satisfactions, such as relaxing, entertainment, partnership, expression of feelings and opinions, meeting with others and establishing social interactions, etc. (Chang and Heo, 2014).…”

Section: Social Network and Self-disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

Self-Disclosure in Virtual Environment: Facebook

Eginli¹,

Özşenler²

2016

IJASOS

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Facebook is still the most popular social media tool among all types of social networks. Besides having an influence on managing online relationships, Facebook may also be determinative of people"s relationships and interactions in their daily lives. Self-disclosure underpins the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal communication. Social networks, especially Facebook, allow people to comfortably selfdisclose. The Uses and Gratifications Theory, which focuses on motives and gains related to the use of media, suggests that the use of social networks also motivates people in terms of meeting some of their social and psychological needs. In this sense, the most important motive may be described as selfdisclosure. With its various spaces, Facebook allows people to share their emotions and thoughts about themselves and other people, and this gives them a sense of gratification by creating a real relationship perception in everyday life. As a result of self-disclosure behaviour, various needs, such as information sharing, entertainment, relaxation and social interactions, are satisfied through virtual environment. According to Social Information Theory, the rate of sharing personal information on social networks may be similar to/more than their everyday face-to-face interactions. This study analyzes different methods and ways of self-disclosure through Facebook. With this purpose in mind, the researchers aim to reveal the selfdisclosure behaviours through the profiles of their Facebook friends based on pre-designated codes by utilizing qualitative content analysis method.

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Visiting theories that predict college students’ self-disclosure on Facebook

Cited by 120 publications

References 30 publications

An open book on Facebook? Examining the interdependence of adolescents’ privacy regulation strategies

An open book on Facebook? Examining the interdependence of adolescents’ privacy regulation strategies

A Three-way Interaction Model of Information Withholding: Investigating the Role of Information Sensitivity, Prevention Focus, and Interdependent Self-Construal

Self-Disclosure in Virtual Environment: Facebook

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