Research on the Relationship between Social Network Users' Self-Disclosure, Social Self-Efficacy and Subjective Well-Being

• Main Authors: LAI, SHIS-HAO, 賴世豪
• Other Authors: LO, SU-CHEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4w3r38

碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士班 === 107 === 　　The purpose of the study was to social self-efficacy, social-networking self-disclosure and subjective well-being of Facebook user. Participants were 419. The instruments applied were Self-disclosure scale, Social self-efficacy scale and Subjective well-being scale. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Three way ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. The results were as follows: 1. In terms of revealing topics, Facebook users have the most low intimacy topics, the most medium intimacy topics and the least high intimacy topics. On the whole, the self-disclosure degree of Facebook is low. 2. Facebook users reveal the most intimate friends, ordinary friends and strangers on social networking sites. On the whole, the disclosure frequency of different disclosure objects on Facebook is low. 3. Facebook users are medium in overall social self-efficacy. Among them, the performance expectation is medium to low degree, and the result expectation is medium to high degree. 4. Facebook users are medium in overall social self-efficacy. Among them, the efficiency expectation is medium and low degree, and the social confidence and outcome expectation is medium and high degree. 5. A correlation exists between topics of disclosure and objects being disclosed to. When looking at how personal or intimate a topic might be, the analysis demonstrates that regardless of whether the topic is highly personal, moderately personal or slightly personal, the information is most often disclosed to intimate friends, followed by ordinary friends and lastly to unfamiliar netizens. With respect to the different intimacy levels of the receiving parties, the analysis shows that when it comes to highly personal, moderately personal or slightly personal topics, when the object being disclosed to is an intimate friend, the level of disclosure of highly personal topics is greater than slightly personal topics, and slightly personal topics is greater than moderately personal topics. When the receiving party is an ordinary friend, slightly personal topics are disclosed at greater levels than highly personal topics, and highly personal topics are disclosed at greater levels than moderately personal topics. When the receiving party is an unfamiliar netizen, highly personal topics are disclosed at greater levels than moderately personal topics, and slightly personal topics are disclosed at greater levels than moderately personal topics. 6. Both men and women revealed the most close friends, followed by ordinary friends, and the least strangers online friends. In terms of revealing topics, men and women have the highest level of high intimacy topics and low intimacy topics, and the lowest level of medium intimacy topics. 7. When looking at different age groups, a correlation can be made between the different groups and disclosure of topics. When looking at this relationship, for those in the 12yrs ~ 23yrs group, the level of disclosure of highly personal topics was significantly greater than slightly personal topics, while slightly personal topics were significantly greater than moderately personal topics. For the other age groups, both highly personal and slightly personal topics where significantly higher than moderately personal topics. In the analysis of the different topics of disclosure with respect to age group, there was no significant difference with respect to the different levels of intimacy of the topics. 8. There was no difference in the degree of self-disclosure between different in-depth topics and different exposed objects in terms of education and years of use of FB. 9. Regarding the average daily use of Facebook (FB) and the objects being disclosed to, regardless of how much time was spent on the platform, disclosure levels with intimate friends was significantly higher than those with ordinary friends, and the levels exhibited with ordinary friends were significantly higher than those with unfamiliar netizens. Intimate friends also registered significantly higher than unfamiliar netizens. There were also differences with respect to disclosures to intimate friends, ordinary friends and strangers when it came to the average time spent on FB. 10. There is a moderate correlation between social self-efficacy and subjective well-being. For the various dimensions of social self-efficacy and social-networking self-disclosure, weak to moderate positive correlations exist. For the various dimensions of subjective well-being and social-networking self-disclosure, weak to moderate positive correlations also exist. 11. Regardless of whether overall self-disclosure or the different intermediary variables that pertain to the various objects of disclosure or intimacy levels of the topics are being considered, the levels of self-disclosure on social networking sites do not have intermediary effects on the social self-efficacy and subjective well-being. In other words, social self-efficacy does not influence subjective well-being based on the level of social networking site self-disclosure.