Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 294-300.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.03.05

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The Effect of Self-presentation in Online Social Networking Sites on Adolescents' Friendship Quality: The mediating Role of Positive Feedback

CUI Xixi, SUN Xiaojun, NIU Gengfeng   

  1. Key Laboratory of Adolescent cyberpsychology and behavior, Ministry of Education;School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-15

Abstract: With the development of the Internet, social networking sites become a new field of online activity and new media of social interaction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among self-presentation in social networking sites, positive feedback and friendship quality. Questionnaires were completed among 817 middle school students from Wuhan aged 10-19423 male and 366 female. We used process written by Andrew F. Hayes (2012) to test mediation effect of positive feedback on the relationship between self-presentation and friendship quality. The results indicated that:(1) positive self-presentation and honest self-presentation were significantly positively related to positive feedback and friendship quality. (2) In social networking sites, honest self-presentation not only directly positively predicted adolescents' friendship quality, but also had an indirect effect on friendship quality through positive feedback; while positive self-presentation only had an indirect effect on friendship quality through positive feedback.

Key words: social networking sites, positive self-presentation, honest self-presentation, positive feedback, friendship quality, adolescents

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