Antecedents of positive self-disclosure online: an empirical study of US college students’ Facebook usage

Figures & data

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of variables

Variable	Mean	SD	Minimum	Maximum	Reliability (a)
Exogenous variables
Malea	38.14%
Whitea	77.74%
African Americana	4.45%
Asiana	9.93%
Native Americana	0.68%
Arabica	7.19%
Internet efficacy	5.18	1.02	1.57	7	0.84
Endogenous variables
Self-esteem	5.20	0.99	2.29	7	0.85
Life satisfaction	4.79	1.13	1.4	7	0.85
Social anxiety	4.32	1.03	1	6.83	0.72
Public self-consciousness	5.07	0.92	1.71	7	0.80
Privacy concerns	4.04	1.18	1	6.9	0.90
Perceived collectivism	5.09	0.89	2.33	7	0.75
Positive self-disclosure	5.55	1.29	1	7	0.85

Note:

a Percentage of dichotomous variables.

Table 2 Standardized ordinary least squares regression predicting positive self-disclosure (N=292)

Variable	Model 1	Model 2
Exogenous control variables
Gender	0.17**	0.14**
Black	0.03	0.03
Asian	−0.20***	−0.17**
Latino	−0.08	−0.04
Native	−0.01	−0.04
Arabic	0.02	0.01
Internet efficacy	0.28***	0.03
Endogenous independent variables
Self-esteem		0.36***
Life satisfaction		−0.14*
Social anxiety		−0.08
Privacy concerns		−0.10*
Public self-consciousness		0.05
Perceived collectivism		0.19**
R^2	0.19***	0.32***

Note:

* p<0.05;

** p<0.01;

*** p<0.001.