Attitudes Toward Online Social Connection and Self-Disclosure as Predictors of Facebook Communication and Relational Closeness
By Andrew M. Ledbetter, Joseph P. Mazer, Jocelyn M. DeGroot, Kevin R. Meyer, Yuping Mao, Brian Swafford. Communication Research, 2011
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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework (2018, background): “Social media have become deeply embedded in social life, from facilitating interpersonal relationships (Ledbetter et al., 2011), affecting personal well-being (Kim and Lee, 2011), facilitating social coordination (Ling and Lai, 2016), to shaping news consumption (Lee and Ma, 2012).”
- Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is facebooking depressing? (2015, methodology): “Self-presentation and self-disclosure motivations are also strong motivators for the use of SNSs (e.g. Ellison et al., 2007; Gibbs, Ellison, & Heino, 2006; Hogan, 2010; Hong et al., 2012; Ledbetter et al., 2011; Peluchette & Karl, 2010; Zhao, Grasmuck, & Martin, 2008).”
- Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use (2014, background): “Although social network sites (SNS) like Facebook and Google+ provide myriad ways to interact, their effect on relationships is ambiguous [24,28,36].”
- Influence of Social Support Received in Online and Offline Contexts on Satisfaction With Social Support and Satisfaction With Life: A Longitudinal Study (2015, background): “Thus, issues that are personal or intimate in nature may be out of place in the SNS context (Ledbetter et al., 2011; Schiffrin, Edelman, Falkenstern, & Stewart, 2010).”
- Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection (2018, background): “Looking specifically at social network sites, researchers have found that a correlation between positive attitudes toward online social connection/self-disclosure and relational closeness is mediated by increased use of Facebook (Ledbetter et al., 2011).”
- Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory: The impact on satisfaction with social network sites (2020, positive): “Indeed, we tend to like people that we frequently interact with and who are similar to us (Byrne, 1971; Strauss, Barrick, & Connerley, 2001), leading to closeness (Laurenceau, Barrett, & Pietromonaco, 1998; Ledbetter et al., 2011; Park, Jin, & Jin, 2011; Valkenburg & Peter, 2007) and trust (Sheldon,”