Adolescents’ Comments on Social Network Sites: Who Receives Negative Feedback and Why?

• In Event: Online Media I: Analyses of Communication Processes

Abstract

The current study focuses on negative feedback in adolescents’ online communication. The main aim of this study is to investigate which adolescents receive negative feedback on social network sites, based on three types of individual susceptibility: (a) developmentally-based susceptibility, (b) dispositionally-based susceptibility, and (c) socially-based susceptibility. In addition, this study investigates why these adolescents receive negative feedback by examining two possible underlying mechanisms: the frequency of adolescents’ social network site use and their online self-disclosure. We collected survey data among 1,032 Dutch adolescents (10-15 years old). The data are currently being analyzed.

Authors

• Maria Koutamanis, University of Amsterdam

• Helen Vossen, U of Amsterdam

• Patti M. Valkenburg, U of Amsterdam