Developing a Model of Adolescent Friendship Formation on the Internet

By Jochen Peter, Patti M. Valkenburg, Alexander P. Schouten. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationship Between Unwillingness-to-Communicate and Students' Facebook Use (2008, background): “Introversion resulted in less frequent, rather than more frequent, online communication (Peter et al., 2005).”
The Relationship of Loneliness and Social Anxiety with Children's and Adolescents' Online Communication (2010, positive): “29 Building on the work of Valkenburg and Peter, 32 the current study investigated the amount, topics, partners, and purposes of online communication to explore differences in usage of communication patterns between children and adolescents with and without self-reported loneliness and social…”
Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory: The impact on satisfaction with social network sites (2020, positive): “The sharing of information on digital platforms develops an online impression (Good, 2013; Liu, 2007) that other users might feel similar with each other, that gives rise to a sense of liking (Cialdini, 2009), which in turn leads to the formation of relationships between SNS members (McKenna et al.,”
Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are: How one's profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites (2010, background): “Peter, Valkenburg, and Schouten (2005) found in a study on online friendship formation that extraverts and introverts formed online friendships via different processes.”
Facebook self-disclosure: Examining the role of traits, social cohesion, and motives (2014, background): “Although the research above partially support the social compensatory features of Facebook, the social enhancement hypothesis argues that people behave online in similar ways as they do faceto-face (Valkenburg, Schouten, & Peter, 2005).”
Cyberbullying victimisation in adolescence: relationships with loneliness and depressive mood (2012, background): “Studies imply that adolescents who tend to be lonely and relatively isolated as well as suffer bad mood and sadness sometimes seek to compensate for their lack of social contacts by finding refuge on the Internet, where they do manage to develop relationships but become more prone and vulnerable to ”
The Effects of Instant Messaging on the Quality of Adolescents’ Existing Friendships: A Longitudinal Study (2009, background): “They may feel awkward to self-disclose in face-to-face settings and, therefore, may like to turn to a ‘protected’ environment such as IM for self-disclosure (Peter et al., 2005).”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part II: An Integrated Theoretical Model (2016, background): “In addition, adolescents constitute one of the most important developmental groups among which to examine these effects given their heightened risk for developing body image and eating concerns (Levine and Murnen 2009) as well as their likelihood to use the Internet as a context for engaging in the ”