Social Anxiety and Benign and Toxic Online Self-Disclosures: An Investigation Into the Role of Rejection Sensitivity, Self-Regulation, and Internet Addiction in College Students. Issue 8 (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Molavi, Parviz; Mikaeili, Niloofar; Ghaseminejad, Mohammad Ali; Kazemi, Zhila; Pourdonya, Misagh
• Is Part Of: Journal of nervous and mental disease. Volume 206:Issue 8(2018:Aug.)
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Social anxiety -- toxic self-disclosures -- rejection sensitivity -- internet addiction; Neurology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Neurology; Psychiatry; Neurologie; Psychiatrie; Neurology; Psychiatry; Periodicals; 616.8005
• DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000855
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3018

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: This work aimed to explore the relationship between social anxiety with benign and toxic online self-disclosures with the mediating role of rejection sensitivity, self-regulation, and Internet addiction. In this study, 358 students who were active members of social networks at the Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Iran were evaluated in the form of a structural equation model. The results substantiated that social anxiety could explain 47% of the variance in benign online self-disclosure and 27% of toxic online self-disclosure with the mediating role of rejection sensitivity, self-regulation, and Internet addiction. It was found that people with high social anxiety had higher rejection sensitivity and lower self-regulation. Also, people with higher social anxiety had directly higher benign and toxic online self-disclosures. The results indicated that self-regulation did not have a direct impact on benign online self-disclosure; however, it had a direct negative impact on toxic online self-disclosure.