Facebook self-disclosure: Examining the role of traits, social cohesion, and motives

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Highlights:

• We surveyed 301 Facebook users to explore predictors of self-disclosive behavior.

• Uses and gratifications theory was a useful model to explain self-disclosure.

• Motives and Big Five personality traits predicted disclosive behaviors.

• Facebookers who seek attention, and existing and new relationships were disclosive.

• Surprisingly, women and men did not differ in self-disclosive behavior.

摘要

•We surveyed 301 Facebook users to explore predictors of self-disclosive behavior.•Uses and gratifications theory was a useful model to explain self-disclosure.•Motives and Big Five personality traits predicted disclosive behaviors.•Facebookers who seek attention, and existing and new relationships were disclosive.•Surprisingly, women and men did not differ in self-disclosive behavior.

论文关键词:Facebook,Self-disclosure,Uses and gratifications,Big five,Motives

论文评审过程:Available online 23 August 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.055