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

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Highlights:

• Different motives for Facebook use lead to the disclosure of different personal information.

• Time spent and number of friends on Facebook are significant predictors for self-disclosure.

• Users perceiving more benefit, rather than risks, tend to disclose more personal information.

• The effect of trust is significant only on “basic” information disclosure.

• The effect of gender difference is confirmed only on “basic” information disclosure.

摘要

•Different motives for Facebook use lead to the disclosure of different personal information.•Time spent and number of friends on Facebook are significant predictors for self-disclosure.•Users perceiving more benefit, rather than risks, tend to disclose more personal information.•The effect of trust is significant only on “basic” information disclosure.•The effect of gender difference is confirmed only on “basic” information disclosure.

论文关键词:Self-disclosure,Social networking sites,Uses and gratifications,Social contract theory,Trust,Facebook

论文评审过程:Available online 26 August 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.059