Self-disclosure on Facebook among female users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 460-468

  Al Saggaf, Yeslam ^a   Nielsen, Sharon ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binomial data; Facebook; Generalised linear model; Loneliness; Poisson distribution; Self disclosure; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BINOMIAL DATA; FACEBOOK; GENERALISED LINEAR MODELS; LONELINESS; SELF-DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84899878621     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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