The Influence of Self-Disclosure in Online Support Seeking on Quality of Received Advice

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Skye Wingate ◽  
Bo Feng ◽  
Chelsea Kim ◽  
Wenjing Pan ◽  
JooYoung Jang
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Advice Quality

Advice of varying quality can be provided to support seekers online. This study examined whether the type of self-disclosure (demographic vs. self-concept) included in a support-seeking post elicits varying levels of advice quality in support provision. Participants ( N = 624) read and responded to an online support-seeking post. Their advice messages were assessed for quality as indexed by the use of reasoning and the sequencing of advice relative to other elements of supportive interactions (emotional support and problem inquiry and analysis). Overall, results suggested that most advice messages were behavior-oriented and did not contain reasoning or additional supportive acts. The type of self-disclosure did not affect advice quality. Theoretical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals What You Say Is What You Get: How Self-Disclosure in Support Seeking Affects Language Use in Support Provision in Online Support Forums

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjing Pan ◽  
Bo Feng ◽  
V. Skye Wingate
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Competing Hypotheses

This experimental study examined how depth of self-disclosure (baseline, peripheral, core) in support-seeking posts influenced forum viewers’ interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in their responses. A series of competing hypotheses derived from several theoretical frameworks were tested. Results obtained from computerized text analyses showed that self-concept self-disclosure was associated with higher levels of interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in viewers’ response messages. Implications of the findings and directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Where and How to Look for Help Matters: Analysis of Support Exchange in Online Health Communities for People Living with HIV

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Maestre ◽  
Susan Herring ◽  
Aehong Min ◽  
Ciabhan Connelly ◽  
Patrick Shih
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Support ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Online Health Communities ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Support Exchange ◽  
Health Communities

Research is scarce on how direct and indirect support seeking strategies affect support exchange in online health communities. Moreover, prior research has relied mostly on content analysis of forum posts at the post level. In order to generate a more fine-grained analysis of support exchange, we conducted content analysis at the utterance level, taking directness of support seeking, quality of provision, forum type, and seeker gender into account. Our analysis of four popular online support forums for people living with human immunodeficiency virus found that type of support sought and provided, support seeking strategy, and quality of emotional support provision differed in care provider/formal forums versus social/informal forums. Interestingly, indirect support seeking tended to elicit more supportive emotional responses than direct support seeking strategies in all forums; we account for this in terms of type of support sought. Practical implications for online support communities are discussed.

scholarly journals Personality and Friendship Satisfaction in Daily Life: Do Everyday Social Interactions Account for Individual Differences in Friendship Satisfaction?

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Wilson ◽  
Kelci Harris ◽  
Simine Vazire
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Friendship Satisfaction

Who are the people who maintain satisfying friendships? And, what are the behaviours that might explain why those people achieve high friendship satisfaction? We examined the associations between personality (self–reports and peer–reports) and friendship satisfaction (self–reports) among 434 students. We also examined whether role personality (how people act with their friends) and quantity and quality of social interactions using ecological momentary assessment mediate the associations between personality and friendship satisfaction. Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and (low) neuroticism were associated with higher levels of friendship satisfaction. These associations could not be accounted for by individual differences in role personality. In addition, our results suggest that quantity of time spent with friends and quality of friend interactions (depth of conversation, self–disclosure and lack of emotion suppression), although associated with friendship satisfaction, do not account for the associations between trait personality and friendship satisfaction. Future research should examine other potential interpersonal processes that explain why some people are more satisfied with their friendships than others and the consequences of friendship satisfaction (e.g. for well–being). Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Cognitive and affective reactions to success and failure: The quality of feedback as the determinant of self-verifying and self-enhancing motivation

Psihologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojana Bodroza
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Personality Characteristic ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Cognitive Reactions

A study was conducted to ascertain what the dominant self motivation is like - selfverifying or self-enhancing? - in a situation when a person is faced with a negative evaluation of a central personality characteristic. Previous research suggested that affective reactions should follow the pattern predicted by self-enhancement theory by which all individuals would react with positive affect to positive evaluation and with negative affect to negative evaluation. On the other side, cognitive reactions are expected to follow the pattern predicted by self-verification theory which suggests that information consistent with the self-concept should be the most convincing (i.e. cognitive reactions should be influenced by interaction of feedback and self-esteem). Ninety female respondents were given a false favorable or extremely unfavorable feedback about their achievement on an intelligence test, after which their cognitive and affective reactions were measured. The results revealed that the respondents demonstrated a self-enhancing motivation both in the affective and the cognitive domain, i.e., regardless of their level of self-esteem, those who had failed experienced more negative affect, rated test more unfavorably, assessed it as less accurate, and claimed they had invested less effort to solve the test, than those who were successful. The research imposes conclusion that cognitive reactions to failure are not conditioned only by the degree of negativity or positivity of global self-views, but also by the quality/intensity of unfavorable feedback. This conclusion provides important methodological implications for future research in this area.

Self-concept clarity as a predictor of self-disclosure in romantic relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1873-1891
Author(s):  
Maryam Tajmirriyahi ◽  
William Ickes
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Multiple Regression Models

Several studies have examined the role of self-esteem in self-disclosure while overlooking a potentially important confounding variable: self-concept clarity. Across three studies, we found an association between self-concept clarity and self-disclosure to one’s romantic partner. This incremental effect held even when the variance attributable to self-esteem was statistically controlled in a multiple regression analysis. Moreover, in two of the three studies, self-esteem was no longer a significant predictor of self-disclosure after controlling for the variance in self-concept clarity. These data suggest that self-concept clarity is an important predictor of self-disclosure—one that is conceptually and empirically distinct from self-esteem. That self-concept clarity tended to supplant self-esteem in the multiple regression models suggests that disclosing the specific aspects of the self that one clearly perceives (one’s attributes, goals, motives, values, etc.) might be more essential to everyday self-disclosure than disclosing only whether one has a globally positive or negative self-view. Future research should explore the causal relationships involved with the aid of experimental studies.

Emotional Disclosures and Reciprocal Support over the Largest Parenting Forum on Reddit: Using Data Mining to Examine the Effect of Account Type and Anonymity on Supportive Communication (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supreet Mann ◽  
Michael C Carter
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

BACKGROUND Online support forums allow users to seek advice, information, and emotional support on a variety of issues. Today’s parents navigate unique stressors both off- and on-line, and online forums can provide parents with the social support they need to address contemporary parenting issues. Increased social support can have a positive effect on mental health, including decreasing depressive symptomatology and acting as a buffer to stress. Online support forums may provide parents with increased anonymity to discuss sensitive topics and may provide minority parents with a larger social network for advice seeking. It is, therefore, critical that we examine online support forums to better understand the role that social support might play in these spaces and the way parent posts may influence response. OBJECTIVE Research examining social support processes in parenting forums is lacking. This study examines the interpersonal support process within the largest Reddit parenting forum, r/Parenting, to understand how anonymity plays a role in emotional self-disclosure of the parent-poster and subsequent commenter support. METHODS Comments and posts made to r/Parenting were collected using Reddit’s API in February of 2020 with a final sample of 118,277 posts and 697,095 comments. RESULTS Results suggest the use of throwaway accounts is an important factor in the way emotional self-disclosure occurs both in posts and comments. Our data evidenced that in an online forum for parents to seek advice, information, and support, the use of throwaway accounts was found to be an important factor in the degree of ESD included in both posts and comments. Additionally, there was a direct and positive relationship between the ESD of posts and ESD of comments. CONCLUSIONS This suggests that in contemporary society, online spaces may offer parents increased anonymity and greater affordances when it comes to connecting with others, and thus operate as critical venues for social support. We evidenced that one feature that affords users with a greater degree of anonymity online (i.e., pseudonyms) serve as critical component in online support seeking among parents, impacting both the process of support seeking and reception of social support over one of the most popular parenting support forums online, r/Parenting. This signals an evolution in the way’s parents seek social support from others. This paves the way for further research examining interpersonal processes and the impact online support has on family communication through parent support.

scholarly journals Factor Structure of the AUDIM-M Dimensional Self-Concept Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents

Children ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
José René Blanco ◽  
Martha Ornelas ◽  
Juan Cristóbal Barrón-Luján ◽  
Leticia Irene Franco-Gallegos ◽  
Susana Ivonne Aguirre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
The City

Self-concept is one of the most relevant variables in the field of personality, and a negative self-perception can pose a risk to the adolescent’s development. The present study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties proposed by Aguirre and collaborators for the dimensional self-concept questionnaire (AUDIM-M). The total sample was 560 adolescents from the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, with a mean age of 12.96 ± 0.88 years. The factor structure of the questionnaire was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis. The analyses show that a four-factor structure is viable and adequate (GFI 0.964; RMSEA 0.057; CFI 0.950). The four-factor structure (personal self-concept, physical self-concept, social self-concept, and academic self-concept), according to statistical and substantive criteria, shows adequate indicators of reliability and validity adjustment. The model obtained coincides with that proposed by Aguirre et al. Improving adolescents’ self-concept undoubtedly contributes to their quality of life, hence the need for valid and reliable instruments for its measurement; this study could be a first approach for future research.

Emotional Support Processes and Physiology

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-190
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Priem
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Physiological Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relational Health ◽  
Previous Theory ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Relational Partners ◽  
The Individual

Emotional support is a vital component of physical, mental, and relational health. Recent research on emotional support hints at the complex, dyadic nature of support interactions, and the role of physiology therein, that have yet to be fully explored. The chapter begins by describing the emotional support process and the role that physiology plays in each of the individual phases. Subsequent sections apply previous theory and empirical findings to explore the ways in which relational partners co-create supportive interactions and the role of physiology. This leads to a description of a new physiological model of support co-construction and avenues for future research. In doing so, this chapter fleshes out aspects of the support provision process that, as of yet, remain unexamined.

Advice Padded With Encouragement: A Preliminary Assessment of an Extended Integrated Model of Advice Giving in Supportive Interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-348
Author(s):  
Yining Zhou Malloch ◽  
Bo Feng ◽  
Bingqing Wang ◽  
Chelsea Kim
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mechanical Turk ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Advice Giving ◽  
Sequence Study ◽  
Advice Quality

The integrated model of advice giving (IMA) proposes that advising in supportive interactions should be carried out in three sequential moves: emotional support—problem inquiry and analysis—advice (EPA). Prior research indicates the utility of this framework for effective advising in supportive interactions. The current project proposed and tested an extended integrated model of advice giving, adding eSteem support (S) as a fourth move in the sequence. Two experiments were conducted. Study 1 included 371 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results showed that the emotional support—problem inquiry and analysis—advice—eSteem support (EPAS) sequence did not elicit significantly higher evaluations of advice quality compared with the EPA or emotional support—problem inquiry and analysis—eSteem support—advice (EPSA) sequence. Study 2 replicated Study 1 with 364 college students and found that, compared with the other two sequences, the EPAS sequence did not produce significantly higher evaluations of advice quality or intention to follow advice. Theoretical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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