Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites

By Natalya N. Bazarova, Yoon Hyung Choi. 2014

603 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• 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): “Prior SNS research focused almost exclusively on public disclosures (see Bazarova & Choi, 2014; Bazarova, Taft, Choi & Cosley, 2013, for an exception).”
• The Big Five, Self-Esteem, and Narcissism as Predictors of the Topics People Write About in Facebook Status Updates (2015, background): “We also examined whether these associations were mediated by some of the motives for using Facebook identified in the literature (e.g., Bazarova & Choi, 2014; Seidman, 2013): need for validation (i.e., seeking attention and acceptance), self-expression (i.e., disclosing personal opinions, stories,…”