Emotional disclosure on social networking sites: The role of network structure and psychological needs

• Main Authors: LIN, Han, TOV, William, QIU, Lin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Facebook; Emotion; Self-disclosure; Social networking; Motivation; Network structure; Social Media; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1552; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2809/viewcontent/EmotionalDisclosureSocialNetworking_2014_CHB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We conducted three studies to understand how online emotional disclosure is influenced by social network structure on Facebook. Results showed that emotional disclosure was associated with both the density and size of users’ personal networks. Facebook users with denser networks disclosed more posit...