{"id":47,"date":"2015-04-21T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:15:26","slug":"adolescents-online-self-disclosure-risky-or-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/2015\/04\/21\/adolescents-online-self-disclosure-risky-or-beneficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescents\u2019 online self-disclosure &#8211; risky or beneficial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Assignment type:<\/strong> Essay<br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Muireann McSwiney<br \/>\n<strong>Submitted:<\/strong>\u00a0June 2011<\/p>\n<p>Online activity is a major feature of adolescents\u2019 culture and social interactions. \u2018Blogs\u2019 and \u2018instant messenger\u2019 provide ample means through which they can pursue pertinent adolescent concerns such as self-presentation, relationship formation and identity exploration. Certain features of computer-mediated communications mean that online self-disclosures are psychologically and qualitatively different to those made offline. The anonymity and controllability of the internet mean that it is fertile ground for identity experimentation through self-disclosure and the feedback received can shape and validate adolescents\u2019 emergent identity. Online self-disclosure carries with it many benefits, as well as the risks so frequently sensationalised in the media. The benefits can include supportive and healthy relationships formed online and enrichment of existing relationships offline. The potential negative consequences of online self-disclosure will also be explored including abusive messaging and the idealisation of one\u2019s communication partner. Research into self-disclosure is not without limitations and these will be outlined. Complete prohibition of adolescents\u2019 online self-disclosure is unrealistic and ineffective. It is reasonable to suggest that there are as many risks in offline disclosure as there are online. Online self-disclosure is concluded to be a positive activity.\u00a0 The implications of adolescents\u2019 online self-disclosure for educational psychologists are also discussed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/files\/2015\/04\/Adolescents-online-self-disclosure-June-2011-Muireann-McSwiney.pdf\">Download (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment type: Essay Author: Muireann McSwiney Submitted:\u00a0June 2011 Online activity is a major feature of adolescents\u2019 culture and social interactions. \u2018Blogs\u2019 and \u2018instant messenger\u2019 provide ample means through which they can pursue pertinent adolescent concerns such as self-presentation, relationship formation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/2015\/04\/21\/adolescents-online-self-disclosure-risky-or-beneficial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[926170],"tags":[1003885],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-safety","tag-essay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/edpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}