Adolescents’ online self-disclosure and self-presentation
Year: 2007
Type: book
Abstract: The aim of this paper was to investigate (a) how often adolescents engage in Internet-based identity experiments, (b) with what motives they engage in such experiments, and (c) which self-presentational strategies they use while experimenting with their identity. Six hundred 9to 18-year-olds completed a questionnaire in their classroom. 50% of the adolescents who used the Internet for chat or Instant Messaging indicated that they had engaged in Internetbased identity experiments. The most important motive for such experiments was selfexploration (to investigate how others react), followed by social compensation (to overcome shyness), and social facilitation (to facilitate relationship formation). Age, gender, and introversion were significant predictors of the frequency with which adolescents engaged in Internet-based identity experiments, their motives for such experiments, and their self-presentational strategies. 1 The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the journal, New Media and Society, 7(3), 2005, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the New Media and Society page: http://nms.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/ Adolescents’ Identity Experiments
Author: Alexander Schouten
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2146322062