Impression management concerns and support-seeking behavior on social network sites

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 38-47

  Oh, Hyun Jung ^a   Larose, Robert ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impression management; Message design logic; Social network sites; Support seeker; Supportive communication

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MESSAGE DESIGN LOGIC; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES( SNS); SOCIAL SUPPORT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84950243200     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.005     Document Type: Article

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