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

By Erin E. Hollenbaugh, Amber L. Ferris. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The function of self-disclosure on social network sites: Not only intimate, but also positive and entertaining self-disclosures increase the feeling of connection (2015, background): “Two additional processes are proposed that can also explain the relational consequences of (semi-)public status updates.”
Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites (2014, result): “Further, our research extends previous studies of disclosure motivations on Facebook, which tended to treat it as a monolithic medium, without accounting for differences in visibility or directedness between its communication forms (e.g., Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014; Waters & Ackerman, 2011 ).”
The uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction (2014, background): “…78.99 & Huang (50% women) Self-expression 74.83 Self-documentation 73.61 Medium appeal 70.57 Socialisation 70.05 Entertainment 61.90 Escapism 54.16 Hollenbaugh & Ferris 2014 301 Facebook users (77% women), Virtual community 18.13 with a mean age of 31.85 years Companionship 17.45 Exhibitionism…”
Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook (2016, neutral): “Older people engage mostly in online family activity (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012), while the younger ones engage with Facebook to pass the time (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014).”
The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students (2017, neutral): “Internal consistency was high (Cronbach’s a ¼ .86) similar to other studies (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014; Link, Struening, Neese-Todd, Asmussen, & Phelan, 2014).”
A Tale of Four Platforms: Motivations and Uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat Among College Students? (2017, background): “In regard to positive behaviors, such as self-promotion, Belk (2013) found that self-disclosure (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014) could be gratified through social media use.”
The media inequality: Comparing the initial human-human and human-AI social interactions (2017, neutral): “For instance, in McCrae and Costa's (1985) big ﬁ ve model of personality (i.e., openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism), the level of extraversion is oftentimes re ﬂ ected by the level of self-disclosure (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014).”