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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The study of adolescents¡¦ online misrepresentation, self-disclosure, online relationship motivation and loneliness

-Ling, Chiao 12 July 2011 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships among adolescents¡¦ online misrepresentation, self-disclosure, cyber-relationship motivation and loneliness. Survey study was conducted on sample consisted of 612 Taiwanese adolescents, 13-18 years of age with instruments including scales of online misrepresentation, self-disclosure, cyber-relationship motivation and of loneliness. Findings indicated that 45.9% of the respondents admit to having online deception experience while 4.4% report prevalent online misrepresentation, with those who live in Pintung, study in specific grade orwith exposure to cyber-relationship having much more online misrepresentation. In addition, not all constructs of self-disclosure, cyber-relationship motivation and loneliness are associated with online misrepresentation. Only accuracy and valence of self-disclosure, easier communication, emotional support, away from the real world and sexual partners of cyber-relationship motivation and loneliness are associated with specific constructs of online misrepresentation. Regression analyses suggested all constructs of self-disclosure in real-life as well as anonymity and emotional support of cyber-relationship motivation have moderate explanatory power for online self-disclosure, whereas accuracy and valence of self-disclosure in real-life as well as depth of control and accuracy of online self-disclosure have low explanatory power for cyber-relationship motivation, indicating that there are factors needed to be explored.

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